New Karate Kid movie (Karate Kid 5)
 

Apparently?

https://www.darkhorizons.com/new-the...ilm-announced/

Seems strange to do this, but maybe Cobra Kai will be over by 2024? Either way I don't know what they can do. The whole show is about Daniel/Johnny already training the next generation of kids into fighters. So what can a movie do with the same premise that's already done? Going back to training just 1 kid again would be a downgrade and also re-tread what they just did with Miguel in the first season too.

For all we know it's a prequel from when Mr. Miyagi was a kid. I doubt they'd do a direct Cobra Kai spinoff into film.

Yeah, it's not even from the same guys as Cobra Kai and they have no involvement.

https://www.darkhorizons.com/new-kar...-of-cobra-kai/

You'd think they'd at least peripherally involve the creators in it, though. Definitely smells like "Miyagi Origins" to me.

Now it's getting really weird. Jackie Chan is in talks to be in it, apparently reprising his role from the Karate Kid remake that was said not to be a part of the original Karate Kid universe? But maybe not?

https://www.darkhorizons.com/jackie-...ew-karate-kid/

Chan wants those Hollywood money?
Goodspeed.

I've never watched Jackie Chan's 'Karate Kid' but as far as I got it, it's about a kid who goes to China and learns Kung Fu?! Which is a bit like remaking 'The Pianist' with Adrian Brody without renaming it but it's about a German dude who plays the organ.

apparently the bullies were going to call Jaden Smith's the Karate Kid to mock him in the movie but I don't think that actually made it in the final film. It's a good movie, I recommend it, far better than the other sequels. The themes are pretty much the same as the original Karate Kid but they're different characters and besides parallels they are different stories so it could definitely be in continuity with the Miyagiverse.

I found it to be boring.

New details. Ralph Macchio returning and Jackie Chan reprising his role from the 2010 movie

https://deadline.com/2023/11/new-kar...io-1235631922/

I'm bound by intrigue to see this through.

I hope this new movie considers the events of the cobra kai series. Would be cool if that show remains in the canon.

Looks like they have an OPEN casting call for the new kid. If you know any kids into acting or martial arts... i'd have them try out (submit a video, etc.)

They say they are looking for a teen with chinese or half-chinese heritage in the casting call. But ehh, i'm sure they can be flexible on that if they find someone they really like

What a weird timeline we live in.

Considering Cobra Kai season 6 will also air next year I am sure it will remain canon. Wasn't Jackie playing the same guy as his old master though with the same exact name? How will they handle that?

It really blows my mind how this franchise just exploded in popularity, when it really only had one popular movie over 35 years ago. The sequels were never well liked back in the day.

Wow, weird! Some crazy conversations much have happened because the Cobra Kai guys told us if anyone were to watch "The Karate Kid" in the Karate Kid/Cobra Kai universe, they'd be watching the Jackie Chan movie.

https://www.darkhorizons.com/quick-n...ip-peaky-jedi/

It's called Karate Kid: Legends.

There is also the chance that no one is talking about. This might all be a big meta thing... like about some kid who's a fan of the Karate Kid movies.

Trailer:

Looks fine, I hope Jackie Chan gets to do more in this movie but given his age probably not. My guess is we'll just see Larusso and nothing of his family, not his wife and not Sam or any major characters from the show. They'll want this to stand on its own for people who didn't watch the series. We'll get minor references and I doubt Johnny will appear either.

I'd bet on some Cobra Kai-heavy stuff in the after-credits. If anything. But yeah, only vague mentions of the events of Cobra Kai throughout the main movie from Daniel.

I have no clue about the franchise apart from having seen the first two films when I was 13 or 14. But I have to say, this looks really fun.

I was already gonna watch this, but Jackie Chan is a guarantee.

New trailer.

So there's a story about Courtney Henggeler today, who played Daniel's wife on Cobra Kai. Apparently she had been following the director of this movie until just the other day, when she deleted him from everything. And then today she announced on her platforms that -- suddenly, and effective immediately -- after 20 years of acting, she's retiring from acting.

The rumor is that she did film some scenes for this movie and they were cut... or there was at least some initial contact with her about something small in this, and they decided to kill off her character between Cobra Kai and this, to make Daniel more grief-stricken and broken.

Not sure I believe that yet, I think just she and Sam will be elsewhere to be absent in the movie.

I looked up the actress and she's only 46? Given Ralph is 63 and their characters are probably around the same age as they are in real life, why did they set him up with a wife whose almost 20 years younger than he is? I guess Daniel likes them young.

DEFINITELY not. Daniel is not a 63 year-old in Cobra Kai. Remember, he was 16 in all 3 Karate Kid movies, and only about a year and a half has passed between all 6 seasons of Cobra Kai that came out over 7 years.

We can actually figure this out. If Daniel was 16 in 1984, he'd be exactly 50 years old when Cobra Kai season 1 came out in 2018. So only about 51 and some change by the end of the show?

This looks decent enough to watch, but I'm feeling it should have been a Netflix movie. Wouldn't pay to see it in the theater.

About 52 the most at the end of the show, yeah. Given that the new movie is 3 years later (2023-ish), he'd be 53-54 when he meets Han.

It's crazy, even with the first 3 movies, the timeline was slow as f*ck. Haha. Feels, like I'm watching DBZ all over again. :lol:

I'll see it in theaters but I don't blame you. There's nothing really for "the fans" to get excited about. If Cobra Kai had never come out, maybe this would have been a BIG event! But it did, so seeing Daniel Larusso like 3 months after we just got done seeing him in Cobra Kai isn't a very big deal. And I don't know that the Jackie Chan movie is super loved, so combining him here with Daniel sort of undermines each of them a bit. Is anyone excited about the new Karate Kid? I can't imagine so. We just had 6 seasons of a Karate Kid show where everybody could pick their favorite Karate Kid out of a dozen or so that we just watched grow and evolve.

It's kind of an oddity. And if it's successful, the plan is Karate Kid Legends 2? And we just keep following this new kid around to new tournaments or something?

The return of Hilary Swank. Boom, book it!

So I'm guessing Jaden Smith won't be in this?

About the only movie that Jaden Smith is fit to film would be "The Cell 2" if they ever made it..... he dresses like Carl Stargher already.

I'm still angry they dropped the ball with her on Cobra Kai. There are ways to do something with her now that would be neat.

Remember, since the Karate Kid remake Will Smith himself has been a producer on everything Karate Kid (his name is on every episode of Cobra Kai, for example). Point being, this movie didn't happen without his blessing. And if Jaden Smith wanted a small part in it, you can bet he got one. Or at least a cameo.

The choreography in the trailer makes the fights look much better than Cobra Kai. Helps the actor they chose actually knows karate in real life instead of kids trying to be good at karate like the Cobra Kai actors were. You can easily tell the difference between a professional doing it their whole lives than a bunch of teens quickly told basic martial arts while acting and filming the eps at the same time.

Digging deeper into the whole "Alpha Elite" organization would be worth at least one movie or season.

Yeah, but can he act? There's a reason all the actual boxers in the Rocky movies are infinitely less interesting to watch than the actors pretending to be boxers in them.

Thought occurred to me today...

Isn't the final shot of Cobra Kai just Daniel and Johnny getting food in a diner strategizing how they will encourage their students to cross-train each other's discipline... set in early 2020?

So what if they were hinting they would work the real-life pandemic into the show's timeline. Does Amanda die of "the 'rona" or something related? Does it sink the LaRusso auto business? Do all the kids have to put their college and training plans on hold?

And we pretend COVID was killing off skinny 40 year-olds? Maybe. Probably cancer.

There's probably something to this, for some reason they want to specifically put 3 in-story years between Cobra Kai and Karate Kid Legends (almost like they wanted to give Daniel enough time in-story to largely get over some kind of traumatic loss). At the end of Cobra Kai Daniel was still being -- enthusiastically -- a sensei, but at the start of Karate Kid Legends he doesn't want anything to do with being a sensei at first.

So what happened? What changed?

They would have still counted that "Death due to 'rona" back then! :tlol::tcouch:

The Cobra Kai show went to great lengths to play up how good Daniel had life to paint him as a foil to Johnny's new underdog status.
But I guess if you're doing a movie with him as a focal character, you have to tear him down several pegs to give him a new character growth arc.

I guess so. Plus, "OK, Jackie Chan... let me put my marriage, my automobile business and my dojo all on hold so I can travel around the world with you to train a rando" has to somehow make sense.

But maaan... if they really do kill off his wife that's going to royally piss off Cobra Kai fans. Like, the movie would go from most fans' being like "meh!" about it, to now hating on it because instead of doing nothing new with the KK/Cobra Kai material, it would actively be hurting it.

On the plus side... hey, maybe Daniel CAN end up with Kumiko now!