First Cartoon Network’s Ben 10 went live-action with a special movie event, and now Nickelodeon’s Dora the Explorer is heading down the same trail. Nickelodeon announced that it will produce a live-action, prime-time television movie based on the hit animated preschool series starring an adventurous Latina heroine. The movie will feature an actor playing a ten-year-old Dora in an all-new adventure enhanced by CG effects.
‘We are thrilled for our viewers to see their favorite Latina heroine come to life in a new, vibrant live-action world,’ says Brown Johnson, who was recently named president of animation for Nickelodeon and MTV Networks Kids and Family Group. ‘Dora will be a little older for her high-stakes, live-action adventure, which we think will be very exciting for our pre-school audience, as well as kids and their families who have grown up watching the show over the last seven years.’
Dora the Explorer is a play-along, animated adventure series set in an imaginative, tropical world of jungles, beaches and rainforests. The show is designed to actively engage its young audience in interactive quests using a variety of learning techniques. In every episode, Dora and Boots invite preschoolers to participate in solving a problem or puzzle in order to get to the next challenge. The bilingual Dora also teaches a Spanish word or phrase that viewers can use in solving the day’s puzzle. The series is created by Chris Gifford, Valeria Walsh and Eric Weiner. Gifford and Walsh also serve as exec producers.
