Productions, it is a loose live-action adaptation of the aforementioned series and the first such film in the eponymous media franchise as a whole created by Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh Valdes and Eric Weiner.

It stars Isabela Moner, Eugenio Derbez, Michael Peña and Eva Longoria, with Danny Trejo as the voice of Boots.

Most of the other lead cast members were hired throughout the rest of the year, and filming took place from August to December 2018 in Australia and Peru.

One day, Diego and his family leave for Los Angeles while Dora and her parents remain searching for the hidden Inca city of gold, Parapata.

They send a now 16-year-old Dora to stay with Diego's family in Los Angeles while they travel to the lost city after she unintentionally proves she's not ready to face danger while exploring.

On a class field trip to a museum, Dora, Diego, Sammy, and Randy are lured to its off-exhibit archives, where mercenaries led by a man named Powell capture them and fly them to Peru.

The group travels through attacks from soldiers who guard Parapata known as the Lost Guardians, quicksand, hallucination-inducing spores that turn them into animated characters in the style of the original cartoon, and an Inca puquio.

Inside the hidden city, Dora and the others solve its temple's puzzles and dodge its traps, bringing them to the central shrine.

Dora figures out that the answer to the test is water, and the Incas allow her and everyone to have a single glimpse of their greatest treasure until Swiper appears and steals the smaller idol, thus angering the gods.

On October 24, 2017, a deal was struck for a live-action version of the television series to be made, with James Bobin directing.

[12] In October, Q'orianka Kilcher was added to the cast,[13] and in November, Pia Miller was set to play Dora's aunt Sabrina.

[20] Visual effects were provided by Mill Film, Moving Picture Company and Cheap Shot VFX, under the supervision of Lindy De Quattro, Andy Brown, and Richard Little.

[1] In the United States and Canada, the film was released alongside The Kitchen, The Art of Racing in the Rain, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and Brian Banks, and was projected to gross $15–20 million from 3,500 theaters in its opening weekend.

The site's critical consensus reads, "Led by a winning performance from Isabela Moner, Dora and the Lost City of Gold is a family-friendly adventure that retains its source material's youthful spirit.

"[31] Metacritic gave the film a weighted average score of 63 out of 100, based on 23 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".