Tony Nominee and Frozen Star Josh Gad to Save the World From Aliens in Chris Columbus' Pixels?

Tony nominee Josh Gad’s Hollywood career is anything but Frozen! According to Deadline, the positively hot Book of Mormon alum is in talks to headline Sony’s upcoming movie Pixels.

Helmed by Chris Columbus and penned by Tim Herlihy and Tim Dowling, Gad would potentially star opposite Kevin James. The movie is about aliens attacking the world by staging versions of ’80s video games on an epic scale. Four champion arcade gamers are called into save the day.

Frozen star Gad is also being primed to appear in a feature film version of Gilligan’s Island, to headline and produce the FX/Fox pilot, The Comedians with Billy Crystal and to play late comic Sam Kinison in a biopic.