![]() The studio then searched for the kid who would play Greg Heffley, they eventually chose Zachary Gordon as Greg Heffley for "nailing" his audition. While producers, studio executives, and writers work on the screenplay, they were also looking for a director, they finally chose Thor Freudenthal as the director for Diary of a Wimpy Kid because he had interesting ideas on how to adapt the book into a movie and kept a journal with illustrations. A few people in Hollywood were thinking of making Diary of a Wimpy Kid into a movie but with different ideas, eventually, a movie studio came up with an idea that the film should be live-action that worked. Zach Gordon is now working as an actor in film and television, a few months later, he read the book and told his mom that if someone made the book into a movie, he wanted to play the role of Greg Heffley. The ideas for the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series was written down in a sketch pad that took four years to fill up, then each page was put together into a 1,283-page book that was published online, the following year later an editor decided to publish the book as a printed book. Greg and Zach did not have many things in common back then but 11 years later these two will come together when Zach was casted to play Greg in the live-action Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie. The next month, Zachary Gordon was born on the other side of the USA. The book starts with Jeff Kinney saying that one day he drew a character named Greg Heffley in January 1998. 5.1 Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Rodrick Rules, Dog Days.The jokey music and limp production values on this Vancouver-based production don’t help matters. The whole movie is pitched to the Peanut Gallery so ruthlessly that any possibility of whimsy or charm is crushed like a bug at a picnic. Gesture and facial expression are invariably too big and character behavior hugely exaggerated. Gabe Sachs & Jeff Judah, one of the two writing teams from the original film, run through a series of tepid and trite gags involving roller-rinks, school hijinks and a horror film viewed on a sleepover that gives Greg and best pal Rowley ( Robert Capron) nightmares.Īnimator David Bowers ( Flushed Away, Astro Boy), making his live-action feature debut, directs as if he were still making cartoons. The latter’s incessant harassment along with his casual delinquency edges the movie into the uncomfortable area of pathological behavior, whether intended or not.Įven worse though, mom and dad, again the luckless Rachael Harris and Steve Zahn, are so lame that the adult actors are forced to mug their way through nearly every scene. But this unfortunately is a mere subplot in a story dominated by the growing hostility between Greg and his older brother Rodrick ( Devon Bostick). Had the movie pursued with more vigor a storyline involving Greg’s first crush, it may have had some life. ![]() Only the thing is, Greg is never certain to what league he actually belongs. Zachary Gordon, a young actor who continues to show promise even in this forlorn affair, returns as Greg, more confident now that he’s graduated to the seventh grade but still full of anxiety, this time over the appearance of a new girl in school, the lovely Holly Hills ( Peyton List), who, everyone assures him, is out of his league. The gags are obvious, predictable and dull, while the characters have been stripped of all life thanks to the filmmakers’ determination to stress quirks over behavior. This time, tedium sets in early and never loosens its grip. Well, guess what? The sequel is all about Greg’s home life, his inane parents and, yes, that bratty brother. The movie’s missteps mostly came in his home life with parents who seemed more juvenile than him and an older brother whose bullying quickly became a tedious running gag. The charm of the first film lay in the rather cool attitude of its diarist - pre-teen Greg Heffley, who maintains his journal against the day when his own fame will create a desperate need for information about his early years - and his acute observations about the hierarchy of popularity that dominates school life.
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