Watch 'The Force Awakens' retold in emojis

Moby Dick has already been translated into 'Emojidick', so why not Star Wars ? Disney is working on this new project and released a video of the Force Awakens using emoticons. This cute and funny movie ingenuously combines the worlds of smartphone and Star Wars .

I have to say that it’s not as bad as you’d expect, regardless of how it sounds at first. And Disney isn’t the first company that thought of remaking movies with emoji. Sony already set a launch date for August 2017 for its upcoming animated film about the cute little graphics.

But these Force Awakens inspired emoji, as well as Disney’s emoji-storytelling skills, are impressive. The emoji force is definitely strong with this studio. I particularly liked the mind duel between Rey and Kylo Ren in this new emoji universe, and there are a few other notable moments as well.

This episode of the As Told by Emoji series is actually the first one in the second series. The first series had
four episodes, netting Disney 50 million views on YouTube.

As a side note, it’s pretty clear that Disney used Apple’s iPhone and iPad to create the animation, even though it
tried to hide their identities using square home buttons. The software elements, however, tell us this emoji
universe lives inside a very iOS-like operating system.