The wimpy kid speaks up

MANILA, Philippines - The best-selling book series Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney which won at the recent Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Awards over Harry Potter and Twilight is now a major motion picture from 20th Century Fox.

From the pages of the best-selling book series, the Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie reels on Greg Heffley (played by Zachary Gordon) thinking middle school is the dumbest idea ever invented. For him, middle school is filled with morons and worst, bullies. As Greg tries to survive the never-ending ordeal and attain the recognition and status he feels he so richly deserves, he devises an endless series of his daily mischief by penning it on paper. His diary as his mother calls it and that which Greg prefers to be called journal is filled with his ideas, judgment and stories of family and school ordeals that serve as his gateway for magnified emotions and ideals of a teen trying to fit in and prove something.

Zachary has appeared in Four Christmases with Vince Vaugh and Reese Witherspoon and National Treasure: Book of Secrets along with Nicolas Cage. He also lent his voice in Madagascar 2: Escape to Africa as the voice of Baby Melman. Other film credits include The Brothers Bloom, Lower Learning, Sex and Death 101 and Georgia Rule.

Diary of A Wimpy Kid opens April 3 (Black Saturday) in theaters from 20th Century Fox to be distributed by Warner Bros.