‘Dora and the Lost City of Gold’ gets a release date

Eva Longoria’s “Dora and the Lost City of Gold” will be released on August 2.

A Paramount Pictures film, the project will be exclusively distributed in India by Viacom18 Motion Pictures, read a statement. According to ew.com, the title character will be just entering high school in the film, which is helmed by James Bobin. Isabela Moner stars as Dora in the film.

Based on the popular animated series “Dora the Explorer”, the live-action adaptation follows Dora’s life as she bands together with a group of teenagers to save her parents (essayed by Eva Longoria and Michael Pena) and solve the mystery of a lost Incan civilization.

Micke Moreno plays Diego, Dora’s cousin; Eugenio Derbez plays Alejandro — a mysterious jungle inhabitant who tries to protect the teenagers from the marauders; Nicholas Coombe plays Randy — a fellow high school student who develops an immediate crush on Dora; Madeleine Madden plays the school’s arrogant class president Sammy; Adriana Barraza plays Dora’s grandmother Abuelita Valerie and Temuera Morrison plays Powell.

–IANS

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