Hey would you look at that? In all the chaos of what’s gone on with Paramount+ and Paramount as a whole in the last two years, the second live-action Dora the Explorer movie is still alive. Fresh off the April debut of her CGI reboot series and its subsequent renewal on and by Paramount+, Dora the Explorer has been recast on the live-action side with You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah actress Samantha Lorraine.
Lorraine, whose first credits included PBS series Kid Stew and AMC’s The Walking Dead: World Beyond, is best known for her role as offending best friend Lydia Rodriguez Katz in last year’s Netflix coming-of-age comedy. She has now been cast in the title role in the film currently working as Dora and the Search for Sol Dorado. It is unknown how much of a follow-up to the previous film Dora and the Lost City of Gold it will be, but it is being made for Paramount+ and Nickelodeon instead of aiming for another theatrical release. When this new film was first announced in July 2022 (originally targeted for a rather optimistic 2023 release) it was reported to be at the very least “inspired by the tone” of the 2019 James Bobin-directed film.
Regardless of whether it’s a direct sequel or jot, the casting makes a lot of sense. 2019 was 5 years ago, and filming was even longer ago. Isabela Merced, whose turn as Dora in Lost City of Gold was her last to be credited as Isabela Moner, has been this year in Madame Web and the just-released Max original film, Turtles All the Way Down. She still has Alien: Romulus to come and begins as Hawkgirl in Superman, the first of what is sure to be many appearances in the new DC Universe when it releases next July. And that’s on top of recurring on the second season of The Last Of Us. She long gone.
The plot synopsis indicates that cousin Diego will be a main character alongside her again, and it mentions “new friends”, though it’s unclear if it will be the first film’s Sammy Moore and Randy Warren, who were played by Madeleine Madden and Nicholas Coombe, or if they’ll go for completely new names to go along with the presumably new faces. Together, they will “trek through perilous dangers of the Amazonian jungle in search of the ancient treasure of Sol Dorado in order to keep this powerful treasure out of enemy hands.” It is directed by Alberto Belli, who directed Disney+ Christmas film The Naughty Nine and episodes of the no-longer-available Disney Channel series Ultra Violet and Black Scorpion. It is written by J. T. Billings, who has experience with Nickelodeon reboots as showrunner and executive producer of the Are You Afraid of the Dark? reboot, and wrote a few episodes of it.
Dora continues to supplant Blue’s Clues & You! as the company’s preschool reboot darling like the original series were. The former premiered mere weeks after the latter series was removed from Paramount+, though the series’s movie, original to the platform Blue’s Big City Adventure, remains. Dora and the Search for Sol Dorado is now poised to join it.
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