Cobra Kai‘s Creators Are Exploring a Mr. Miyagi Prequel

The operation “Cobra Kai ne'er dies” whitethorn soon person a full caller meaning. Though lone the archetypal 3rd of the last season of the Netflix Karate Kid spinoff is out, the show’s creators are already exploring ways to proceed the franchise. This overmuch we already reported. But present we cognize 1 of the circumstantial stories they’re considering, and it’s highly intriguing.

Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter, Cobra Kai co-creator Hayden Schlossberg revealed that this season’s teases about the past of Mr. Miyagi, the teacher from the original Karate Kid films played by Pat Morita, are a hint astatine what mightiness beryllium to come. “It is 1 of the reasons wherefore we did the Miyagi container communicative this season,” helium said. “It opens up all these questions astir Mr. Miyagi and what his beingness was like, and that’s been thing we’ve been wanting to bash for a while. We’ve talked to Robert Mark Kamen, the writer of the original Karate Kid who based this full movie disconnected his sensei who studied Okinawan karate; we’ve been talking astir each this Miyagi backstory with him, which helped america with play six stuff. Now that we’re done, we tin really commencement getting into this stuff.”

And by “getting into this stuff,” did Schlossberg mean a imaginable Mr. Miyagi prequel show? “I would accidental that we decidedly privation to bash that and person been talking astir that,” helium continued. “But the absorption has been connected Cobra Kai. As we’re finishing that up, we’ll spot precisely what way we instrumentality successful presumption of spinoffs, but it is decidedly thing that we’ve been wanting to do. It’s conscionable that we privation to hold until we get finished with Cobra Kai archetypal earlier we get into that.”

Out of each The Karate Kid movie characters who’ve been a portion of Cobra Kai, Mr. Miyagi is surely the 1 we’ve learned the slightest about. In ample portion that’s due to the fact that Morita passed distant successful 2005, and the amusement honored that by having the quality besides beryllium deceased. But Schlossberg, who created Cobra Kai with Jon Hurwitz and Josh Heald, besides knows that immoderate exploration of Miyagi could reframe not conscionable Cobra Kai, but the archetypal movies too. It’s a delicate taxable but 1 that, if it happens, could beryllium precise interesting.

The 2nd 3rd of Cobra Kai’s last play is coming successful November. See the archetypal batch of episodes here.

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