Cobra Kai Season 6 Will Not Connect To New Karate Kid Movie
The Karate Kid sequel series Cobra Kai, once a YouTube Red original series, eventually moved to Netflix and became a pop-culture hit. With the success of the series, a new Karate Kid movie from Sony was announced last year, but it turns out it will not be connected to Cobra Kai.
“What we can say is that we have significant interest in doing more things in this universe. We have multiple ideas of the kinds of things that we would like to do,” explained Cobra Kai co-creator Josh Heald, who spoke to GameSpot during a set visit for the final season. “It’s really just sort of taking the time. We’ve been so busy with this season, that we haven’t had those meetings with Sony and Netflix.”
Exact details about the new movie are loose but has the original Karate Kid Ralph Maccio and martial arts legend Jackie Chan teaming up for the project. Maccio will reprise playing Daniel LaRusso once again as well as produce the feature. Chan will reprise his role as Mr. Han, the character from 2010’s Kung-Fu Kid. That film, which starred Jaden Smith, was seen as a reset for the franchise, but it didn’t take off. Heald continued that the film is still very much its own thing.