Future scholars note: Australia played a large part in bringing the live action and much older DORA THE EXPLORER to the big screen.
Screen Queensland and Paramount Players has announced announced that they have begun principal photography for the motion picture adaptation of Nickelodeon’s Peabody award-winning children’s animated series. Shooting is now taking place on location at the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
James Bobin (The Muppets, Muppets Most Wanted, “Flight of the Conchords”) marks the lovable Latina character’s big screen debut (and first live-action adaptation on any platform) after fourteen seasons (2000-2014) and 172 episodes on Viacom’s enduring children’s cable network. The film is a Paramount Players and Nickelodeon production in association with Walden Media. The film is being supported by the Queensland Government via Screen Queensland. Paramount will release the film on 2 August 2019.
Star Isabela Moner, pictured in a new photo from the studio, has most recently appeared in Transformers: The Last Knight and Sicario: Day of the Soldado.
Dora the Explorer will film entirely in Australia’s Gold Coast, in the state of Queensland on the country’s east coast, south of Brisbane.
