“Because everyone who has read has the materials and they’ve been watching the footage, and everything’s approved.”Īs for the more immediate future, Cobra Kai season 4 is focused on The Karate Kid Part III. “I think everyone knows that we’d like to go beyond our fifth season,” Hurwitz says. Season 5 is already in production but the fate of season 6 is unknown.
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We’ve always long desired to end the series on our own terms when the story has reached that point. “The best stories are those that have a beginning, middle, and end and aren’t ones that overstay their welcome and just kind of mark time and wait to fade out. Miyagi was the only character carried over from the first three films so there’s a large cast of Next Karate Kid characters for future season s Cobra Kai to play with, including the psychotic school security leader Colonel Paul Dugan (Michael Ironside), his psycho student Ned Randall (Michael Cavalieri), and well as Julie’s love interest Eric McGowen (Chris Conrad).ĭespite endless possibilities, the creators claim they do have an endgame for Cobra Kai.
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“It’s a movie that encompasses a continuation of the events of Mr. “ The Next Karate Kid is very much in the canon of our universe,” Heald reveals. Pierce was played by Oscar-winner Hilary Swank in her breakout starring role.
Miyagi (Pat Morita) took on a new pupil, Julie Pierce. However, there was a fourth film, The Next Karate Kid, where Mr.
But these characters in that storyline are not something that does have overlap.”Ĭobra Kai cited the two sequels with appearances by Chozen (Yuji Okumoto) and Kumiko (Tamlyn Tomita) from The Karate Kid Part II last season, and the highly anticipated return of Terry Silver (Thomas Ian Griffith) from The Karate Kid Part III for season 4. “ The Karate Kid does not take place in our universe,” Heald says. According to Heald, should Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith ever appear in the Netflix series, it would not be as Mr. And as for Jaden, his father Will Smith is an executive producer on Cobra Kai. It wasn’t very good.Īs for the 2010 Karate Kid, however, a Jackie Chan cameo would be a major coup for Cobra Kai. The best homage might be a well-hidden Easter egg, but the cartoon is largely forgotten and rightly so. It would be a stretch for Cobra Kai to include the cartoon series within its canon because it had a lot of fantastical elements like magic. Han) and Jaden Smith (Dre Parker) and an overlooked Saturday morning cartoon series that ran for 13 episodes back in 1989. But it all began with one movie.”īeyond the original four films, other Karate Kid properties include the 2010 redux, starring Jackie Chan (Mr. “We call it the Miyagi-verse,” Heald says of the Karate Kid world. In light of that fresh ink and in advance of the long-awaited Cobra Kai season 4, Den of Geek chatted with Heald and Hurwitz about the future of the franchise, and what Karate Kid films will continue to be in the Cobra Kaicanon. The deal with the trio’s production imprint, Counterbalance Entertainment, runs for four years and even includes the possibility of expanding the Cobra Kai/ Karate Kid universe with fresh spinoffs.
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Last September, Sony Pictures TV renewed their contract with the creators of Cobra Kai – Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz, and Hayden Schlossberg.
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