Guide Note
Fox 2000 had acquired the rights to adapt Jeff Kinney's popular children's book series Diary of a Wimpy Kid, into a film. Wimpy Kid tells the story of a smart-aleck middle school student named "Greg Heffley". First published in 2007, the idea for the comic series was though of in 1998. After Kinney placed it on the website Funbrain.com, it was published into a series of books in 2004. While on funbrain, it accumulated roughly 50 million hits, receiving nearly 100,000 hits a day.
Fast Facts
- Fox 2000 purchased the rights to all 5 novels
- Director: TBA
- Starring: TBA
- Producer: Nina Jacobson
- Book publisher: Abrams in 2007
- Nina Jacobson is producing the live-action project
- The Main characters: Greg Heffley, Rodrick Heffley, Manny Heffley, Ann Heffley, Frank Heffley and Rowley Jefferson
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