New ‘Dora the Explorer’ Movie to Star Samantha Lorraine

Samantha Lorraine is placing on her backpack.

The actress, greatest identified for her key position in You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah, has been forged because the titular heroine in Nickelodeon Studios’ new live-action Dora the Explorer function being made for Paramount+ and Nickelodeon.

Alberto Belli, who directed Disney+ vacation function The Naughty 9 and episodes of Disney present Extremely Violet and Black Scorpion, is helming the brand new manufacturing that has a working title of Dora and the Seek for Sol Dorado.

Written by J.T. Billings , the script follows as Dora, her cousin Diego and their new mates trek by way of perilous risks of the Amazonian jungle searching for the traditional treasure of Sol Dorado with a purpose to preserve this highly effective treasure out of enemy arms. Swiper no swiping!

Sol Dorado shall be solely the second time the adventurous Latina has been translated to the live-action world. Isabela Moner performed the character in a 2019 film directed by James Bobin that was launched theatrically.

Dora, initially a long-running animated youngsters’s sequence that started on Nickelodeon in 2000, is likely one of the Paramount’s largest and extra worthwhile franchises, with its impression felt by way of a number of sequence, merchandizing tie-ins, video video games and toys. Dora, a brand new preschool animated sequence, debuted on Paramount+ in April and a second season is already greenlit.

Lorraine performed Lydia Rodriguez Katz in My Bat Mitzvah, the offending greatest buddy in 2023’s well-regarded Netflix coming-of-age comedy. The movie revolved round Lydia’s friendship with the primary character, Stacy Friedman (Sunny Sandler). The actress is a relative newcomer to the display. She earned her first credit score in 2020 on PBS sequence Child Stew. That very same 12 months, she additionally appeared on AMC’s The Strolling Lifeless: World Past.

Lorraine is repped by Buchwald, Enterprise, Stellar Expertise and Goodman Genow.