Kinney - The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary: The Next Chapter

OTHER BOOKS BY JEFF KINNEY Diary of a Wimpy Kid Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Double Down The Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary COMING SOON: MORE DIARY OF A WIMPY KID

TO JASON If the Kinneys wanted to go somewhere far from
home, they almost always drove. But a lot can go wrong on the road. There was the time the Kinneys locked themselves
out of the station wagon. Then there was the time one of the Kinney kids threw up in the
backseat before they even got out of the driveway.

And the time the Kinneys went camping in the
mountains, and had to sleep in the car when a bear invaded the campsite. That might sound hard
to believe, but it really happened. Two stories in particular became the inspiration
for scenes in The Long Haul. And both involve animals getting loose in the car.

The Kinney kids were raised in Maryland, where in
the summertime its common for a family to pick up a bushel of crabs at a roadside stand on the way
home. That means driving with a paper bag full of live crabs.

One summer night, the car hit a pothole, and the
paper bag tipped over. The crabs ran wild on the f loor of the station wagon, and the terrified
Kinney kids squealed in horror in the backseat. Forty years later, that episode inspired the
seagull scene in the book The Long Haul. The details are all changed, but the idea is the same:
Its terrifying to be trapped in a small space with panicked animals. Another near-disaster occurred when the familys
pet rabbit, Frisky, somehow got out of its cage in the back of the station wagon and tried to squirm
through the back window. But Mrs.

Kinney saved the day by leaping from
the front seat to the back and grabbing the rabbits hind legs before it had a chance to
become roadkill.

Later on, this became the inspiration for a scene
in The Long Haul, when the pig gets out of its cooler and tries to escape. Most families have at least one road-trip horror
story just like these. And that was the idea
for The Long Haul if Greg Hef f ley and his
family went on a road trip across the country,
what are all the things that could go wrong? EASY AS ONE-TWO-THREE In 2015, there were ten Wimpy Kid books, and
three of them had already been made into movies. The Long Haul was the first Wimpy Kid book
that was actually written with a movie in mind. And the timing was perfect: The studio had started to
think about making a new Wimpy Kid movie.

Everyone agreed, The Long Haul was a great
idea for the next film. The first three movies were set in the Hef f leys town, but this was a chance
to get Greg and his family out of their regular world and on the road. But the movie would have to be different from the
book. If youve ever seen a movie thats based on a book youve read, youve probably noticed that
there are a lot of changes. Thats because if you film a book exactly the way its written, chances
are it wont make a very good movie. Even though every movie is different, audiences
expect certain things to happen when theyre watching a film.

Almost all movies are written in
three sections called acts. Lets take a look at what happens in each act, using one of Greg and
Rowleys movies as an example.

ACT ONE We meet the main character, or hero. We learn about the heros world and the problems
the hero faces. Something unexpected happens. Next page