Fan CastingThe Emoji Movie 2: Glitched (2026)

Four months or so after the end of the first film, the emoji-populated city of Textopolis has been restored to its former glory, complete with its text center getting rebuilt from the ground and partially updated to match the occasional updates of the phone it's located in. Following this, Smiler, the text center's head supervisor, has been demoted to the Loser Lounge for her crimes, and the multi-expressive emoji Gene has become a popular emoji among the city's and text center's residents and individual emojis. He has also formed close relationships with both Hi-5 and Jailbreak, becoming the best friend of the former and the boyfriend of the latter. While returning home from a hangout with both in the wallpaper, Gene, Hi-5, and Jailbreak all have an unpleasant encounter with COD-E, a hacker virus that is considered the most deadly among the many different residing beings inside of phones. COD-E opens up a vortex in the wallpaper, which causes Gene and his friends to be transported to Motherboard City, a metropolis designed similarly to Textopolis but colored pink and located inside Alex's girlfriend Addie McCallister's cell phone. Stuck in Motherboard City with no way to return to Textopolis, Gene and his friends must turn to zen-like microchip Chip Wires for help to get back home before COD-E finds them in Addie's phone and deletes them and infects every digital device across the globe.