Diary of a Wimpy Kid brought us the adventures of Greg Heffley, a wise
cracking preteen who must survive the treacherous jungles of middle
school. The second film, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules focused on
Greg’s family and his relationship with his older brother Rodrick. The
third film, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days focused on Greg’s family and
his relationship with his father and best friend Rowley.
The ninth installment in Kinney’s book series and the latest movie
adaptation “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul” takes us on a Heffley
family road trip to Meemaw’s 90th birthday that goes off course when
Greg Heffley (Jason Drucker) schemes to go to a gaming convention.
In The Long Haul, Greg hatches his latest plan to avoid being infamous
and finally get the fame he believes he deserves. Suffering a brutal
blow to his ego when footage of an unfortunate diaper incident goes
viral, Greg takes matters into his own hands to restore his “rep.” Of
course, the obvious way is to make an even cooler viral video with the
help of YouTube sensation Mac Digby whose auto reply email message
inviting Greg to meet him at the Player’s Expo hurls Greg’s imagination
into overdrive and takes him on yet another venture of pandemonium
featuring brilliantly animated illustrations.
Ready for a nice, long summer, the all new cast with Jason Drucker as
the wimpy kid Greg is looking forward to just hanging out, but his
mother, Susan (Alicia Silverstone), wanting to focus more on family and
not gadgets decides the family needs to take a road trip to their
great-grandmother’s birthday celebration. At first, Greg wants no part
of this, but soon realizes this is his ticket to the Player’s Expo. His
father Frank (Tom Everett Scott) is slammed at work and uncertain
driving there is a good idea. His brother and still the chief tormentor.
Rodrick (Charlie Wright) is only focused on his band and just wants
money from his parents to repair his damaged van which isn’t happening.
Despite everyone except little Manny (Dylan and Wyatt Walters)
disapproving, Susan makes the family pack up their minivan with Frank’s
old boat attached and they hit the road for the long haul.
“Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul” is the fourth Wimpy book to hit
the big screen and Kinney went about it a little differently this time.
“When I wrote The Long Haul, I was actually thinking of it as a movie. I
saw the movie making process and thought ‘I am going write a book
specifically meant to become a movie’," explains Kinney. “We get the
Heffleys out of their house, their neighborhood and on the road. I think
that's gonna be a lot of fun for audiences.”
“Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul” is now in cinemas nationwide from 20th Century Fox distributed by Warner Bros.
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