Cobra Kai Season 6 Is Unlikely to Be the End for All Characters

When Netflix’s Cobra Kai finishes its sixth and last season adjacent year, it’s improbable to beryllium the extremity for everyone. There is, of course, a Karate Kid movie connected the horizon that’ll diagnostic Ralph Macchio’s Daniel LaRusso, but the creators of Cobra Kai teased that successful addition, they are already considering ways to support the kicks and punches coming.

“The 3 of america would emotion to proceed to enactment wrong this universe,” co-creator Josh Heald told io9. “It’s our favourite beingness to play successful and we person a batch of different ideas that are connected our minds already that we’re starting to sermon with our partners.”

Speaking with io9, Heald and his co-creators Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg wouldn’t get into specifics, but the trio did clarify 2 things. One, immoderate imaginable follow-ups volition not marque the travel of Cobra Kai little satisfying, and two, they are not speaking astir the upcoming film.

“We achieved everything successful this bid that we acceptable retired to do,” Heald said. “And we were unapologetic successful our thrust and our goals to bash immoderate really, truly large things arsenic the sixth play winds down. We had truthful galore balls successful the aerial erstwhile we entered play six successful presumption of characters you attraction about, storylines that are successful progress, and characters and storylines that we privation to statesman to archer due to the fact that we’re ever telling thing caller with a caller play arsenic well. And portion landing each of those storylines and arcs, immoderate of them volition extremity neatly, immoderate of them volition inevitably not. And that was intentional successful a mode to decidedly permission thing connected the table.”

“There’s ever much connected the array due to the fact that each caller play conscionable creates caller branches of that tree,” Heald continued. “And the 3 of america ne'er stopped talking about, ‘Oh, you cognize what would beryllium large if you bash this?’ There’s ever much to archer that you’ll beryllium funny about.” But, again, that has thing to bash with the upcoming movie, which volition co-star Macchio on with Jackie Chan arsenic Mr. Han from the 2010 remake.

“Mr. Han is not portion of our canon,” Heald said. “I deliberation it’s much that Daniel is portion of that canon. We’ve been telling our communicative the aforesaid mode we’ve been telling it since play one. The diagnostic squad making this movie presents yet different accidental for different filmmaker to travel successful and contiguous their imaginativeness of a movie that takes spot wrong a Karate Kid universe. This 1 happens to overlap with Daniel LaRusso and Mr. Han. But for us, it had nary bearing connected our story.”

So if it’s not that movie, what could it be? Could we travel immoderate of the students to college? Will 1 of them go the adjacent sensei of Miyagi-Do? Will we prime up with different karate dojo successful the Valley? And volition this beryllium a show, movie, oregon thing other entirely? Surely we’ll find retired adjacent twelvemonth aft Cobra Kai wraps up.

io9 volition person overmuch much from the Cobra Kai creators starring up to the archetypal portion of the sixth and last season, which debuts connected Netflix July 18. Catch up here.

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