{"id":29599,"date":"2025-07-28T21:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T21:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/29599\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T21:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T21:46:09","slug":"the-getaway-in-the-works-at-disney-daily-disney-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/29599\/","title":{"rendered":"The Getaway\u2019 in The Works at Disney+ \u2013 Daily Disney News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Disney+ is moving forward with their fourth animated film in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid franchise. <\/p>\n<p>The studio is currently casting a new actor to take on the voice Greg Heffley for Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway, which is based on the 12th book in the series from author <a href=\"https:\/\/thedisinsider.com\/2022\/12\/08\/exclusive-diary-of-a-wimpy-kid-films-to-be-produced-out-of-order-jeff-kinney-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Jeff Kinney<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The film is expected to follow the book, which centers around Greg and his family flying to a resort called Isla de Corales for\u00a0Christmas. The Heffleys go there because that was the place where Greg\u2019s mom and dad went for their\u00a0honeymoon.<\/p>\n<p>Muppet Babies producer Matt Danner takes over directing duties with Jeff Kinney writing and producing. Production is expected to begin in the next few weeks with hopes of a 2026 release on Disney+.<\/p>\n<p>The first film, Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2021), reimagines Greg Heffley\u2019s middle school misadventures from the original book with new animation. This was followed by Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2022), which focuses on Greg\u2019s rocky relationship with his older brother, Rodrick. Finally, Diary of a Wimpy Kid Christmas: Cabin Fever (2023), follows Greg as he desperately tries to stay on Santa\u2019s \u201cnice\u201d list after accidentally damaging property at his school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disney+ is moving forward with their fourth animated film in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid franchise. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-29599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}