The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary: How Greg Heffley Went Hollywood

With the success of the wildly popular Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, it was only a matter of time before Greg Heffley went Hollywood. What's surprising is that he wasn't animated! Perhaps it's cheaper to make a live action film these days, or perhaps the talented Jeff Kinney simply didn't have the time to draw an entire movie. Whatever the case, Greg went to Hollywood (a.k.a Vancouver).

"The producers searched for a place that looked like a typical American town. They considered Rhode Island, Michigan, and lots of other places in the United States. So it's weird that they ended up finding the perfect American town in Canada."

In short sections with titles like "A Wimp is Born," "Action!," and "Faking It", Jeff Kinney walks the reader show more through the complicated process of creating a movie. Of course, he does it with the humor that readers have come to expect. In the chapter "Double Trouble" detailing the casting of little brother Manny, Kinney writes,

"One of the trickiest roles to cast was Greg's three-year-old little brother, Manny. You may have noticed that in the books, Manny looks sort of like a buck toothed alligator. Unfortunately, there aren't many kids who look like that in Vancouver - or anywhere else for that matter.
So the casting director looked for the next best thing, which was a cute kid with a memorable face. After a lot of searching, the perfect Manny was found. Two of them actually. The trouble with three-year-olds is that they don't always do exactly what you want them to do, so it's a good idea to have a backup in case one of them decides not to cooperate."

The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary is the same size and format of the previous books, a printing font on diary-style pages liberally accompanied by hilarious artwork (from The Diary of a Wimpy Kid as well as new drawings created especially for this book). The difference here is the addition of photographs, costume sketches, movie stills, actors' family photos and more.

This book will appeal to fans of Greg Heffley as well as those interested in the film making industry. Casting, directing, set design, costumes, acting and editing are explained in a manner that is both informative and funny - a great way to learn. The WK Movie Diary is a winner!

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Some surprisingly great insights on how a Hollywood film gets made, with the classic wimpy kid charm.

Growing up, I absolutely loved and adored the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. Every time a new book came out, I was on it

Really interesting book! I now have a better understanding of how movies are put together that I didn't know a lot about before.

Not just another title in the Wimpy canon but also a fun guide to the moviemaking industry. Readers will soak up the revealing details of costuming, special effects, casting and more. Although the focus of the narrative is on the moviemaking, Wimpy Kid cartoons provide the side commentary we've come to love. Color photos and stills from the movie also fill the pages.

This book is about a 7th-grader boy named Greg Heffley. Greg decides to keep a journal about his year in middle school. He illustrates and writes mini stories about the year such as P.E. wrestling, school play , and Halloween Oh by the way it’s not a DIARY it’s a journal as her puts it.
I thought this book was awesome and fun. I love the little draws that he did. It kind of reminded me of my years in middle school and how crazy it was. I think this book is a great book for student that are leaving the elementary school and are heading to the big world of middle school.
An assignment that I would assign will be for the student to keep a journal like Greg and turn it in after a month of writing and illustrating.

The wimpy kid movie diary book is a book on Zachary Gordan or Greg Heffley and his life. The book first starts off on how he grew up. When he was three and four he started Greg, his little stick figure person. This is where Greg first appeared. And eventually got bigger to where they had enough to make their first Wimpy kid book. When Zachery turned eleven he found out that they were going to make a movie out of what started as his creation and he wanted to star in it. Now it keeps going and their releasing a book in November.
My opinion on this book would be good enough were you should read it. My only problem with this book is that it’s basically talking about the same thing over and over. I feel like the book only talks about how show more he started off. But the book is supposed to be about his whole life. My favorite thing about the book is where it talks about how they filmed the movie and what they were doing while filming. And funniest thing about the movie is when it says they filmed a movie about the boys in middle school while they missed their first days of middle. Also I like the books pictures were its shows the real persons personality. show less