Nickelodeon will host the network premiere of Dora and the Lost City of Gold, Nickelodeon Movies and Paramount Pictures' hit live-action movie based on Nickelodeon's beloved animated preschool series Dora the Explorer, to its programming library on Friday, December 2 at 7:00 p.m. (ET/PT)!
After delighting kids of all ages with her small screen adventures, Dora the Explorer finally leapt out of animation and into the live-action world with Paramount Pictures, Paramount Players and Nickelodeon Movies' 2019 feature film Dora and the Lost City of Gold.
Starring Nickelodeon alum Isabela Merced (100 Things to Do Before High School, Dora & Friends: Into the City, Legends of the Hidden Temple, Transformers: The Last Knight) as the titular hero, the all-star cast also included Michael Pena and Eva Longoria as Dora’s explorer parents. And if the voices of Boots the monkey and Swiper the fox sound familiar, that’s because they’re Danny Trejo and Benicio del Toro! In addition to delighting fans of the long-running TV franchise, the film was also a hit with critics.
Having spent most of her life exploring the jungle with her parents, nothing could prepare Dora (Moner) for her most dangerous adventure ever – high school. Always the explorer, Dora quickly finds herself leading Boots (her best friend, a monkey), Diego (Jeff Wahlberg), a mysterious jungle inhabitant (Eugenio Derbez, The Casagrandes), and a rag tag group of teens on a live-action adventure to save her parents (Eva Longoria, Michael Peña) and solve the impossible mystery behind a lost city of gold.
11-time Emmy and four-time BAFTA nominee director James Bobin (Alice Through the Looking Glass) assembled a cast of diverse superstars to star in the movie, including: Isabela Merced (100 Things to Do Before High School, Legends of the Hidden Temple, Transformers: The Last Knight) as Dora, Eva Longoria (Desperate Housewives, Overboard) as Dora's mother, Elena; Michael Peña as Dora's father, Cole; Eugenio Derbez (The Casagrandes, Overboard, Instructions Not Included; How to Be A Latin Lover), as Alejandro, a mysterious jungle inhabitant who tries to protect the teenagers from the marauders; Jeffrey Wahlberg (Future World, Ballers, Counterpart, Reefa) in the role of cousin Diego; Nicholas Coombe (Spy Kids: Mission Control, Midnight Sun) as Randy, a fellow high schooler who develops an immediate crush on Dora; Madeleine Madden (Picnic at Hanging Rock, Tidelands) as the school’s snooty class president, Sammy; Academy Award nominee Adriana Barraza (Babel, Amores Perros, Thor, The 33) as Dora’s grandma, Abuelita Valerie; Temuera Morrison (Green Lantern, Moana), as Powell; Q’orianka Kilcher (The Alienist), as Inca Princess Kawillaka; Pia Miller (Home and Away) as Dora's aunt Mami; Madelyn Miranda (9-1-1: Lone Star), who portrays Young Dora; Benicio del Toro as the voice of Swiper the fox, Danny Trejo as the voice of Boots the Monkey; and Marc Weiner (Dora the Explorer, Go, Diego, Go!, Dora and Friends: Into the City, Weinerville) as the voice of Map.
Dora and the Lost City of Gold is directed by James Bobin, produced by Christopher Robin producer Kristin Burr, who is joined by longtime Bobin associate, executive producer John G. Scotti (The Muppets, Muppets Most Wanted, Alice Through the Looking Glass) as well as executive producers Julia Pistor (The Spiderwick Chronicles, A Series of Unfortunate Events) and Eugenio Derbez. Tom Wheeler wrote the story, and Nicholas Stoller and Matthew Robinson penned the screenplay. Walden Media co-financed and co-produced the film with Paramount. Dora and the Lost City of Gold was filmed entirely in Australia’s Gold Coast, in the state of Queensland on the continent’s east coast south of Brisbane.
Nickelodeon is currently producing two Dora the Explorer spin-offs for Paramount+ - an all-new CG-animated preschool series, and the first-ever live-action Dora the Explorer series, inspired by the tone of Paramount Pictures’ 2019 Dora and the Lost City of Gold theatrical release, with this new version for Paramount+ targeting the tween demo.
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Originally published: November 19, 2022.
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