When Netflix’s Cobra Kai finishes its sixth and final season subsequent 12 months, it’s unlikely to be the tip for everybody. There may be, after all, a Karate Kid movie on the horizon that’ll function Ralph Macchio’s Daniel LaRusso, however the creators of Cobra Kai teased that as well as, they’re already contemplating methods to keep the kicks and punches coming.
“The three of us would like to proceed to work inside this universe,” co-creator Josh Heald advised io9. “It’s our favourite universe to play in and now we have loads of different concepts which can be on our minds already that we’re beginning to focus on with our companions.”
Talking with io9, Heald and his co-creators Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg wouldn’t get into specifics, however the trio did make clear two issues. One, any potential follow-ups is not going to make the journey of Cobra Kai much less satisfying, and two, they don’t seem to be talking in regards to the upcoming movie.
“We achieved every thing on this sequence that we got down to do,” Heald stated. “And we have been unapologetic in our drive and our targets to do some actually, actually huge issues because the sixth season winds down. We had so many balls within the air once we entered season six by way of characters you care about, storylines which can be in progress, and characters and storylines that we need to start to inform as a result of we’re all the time telling one thing new with a brand new season as nicely. And whereas touchdown all of these storylines and arcs, a few of them will finish neatly, a few of them will inevitably not. And that was intentional in a approach to undoubtedly go away one thing on the desk.”
“There’s all the time extra on the desk as a result of every new season simply creates new branches of that tree,” Heald continued. “And the three of us by no means stopped speaking about, ‘Oh, you realize what could be nice in the event you do that?’ There’s all the time extra to inform that you simply’ll be inquisitive about.” However, once more, that has nothing to do with the upcoming film, which can co-star Macchio together with Jackie Chan as Mr. Han from the 2010 remake.
“Mr. Han shouldn’t be a part of our canon,” Heald stated. “I feel it’s extra that Daniel is a part of that canon. We’ve been telling our story the identical means we’ve been telling it since season one. The function staff making this film presents one more alternative for an additional filmmaker to come back in and current their imaginative and prescient of a film that takes place inside a Karate Child universe. This one occurs to overlap with Daniel LaRusso and Mr. Han. However for us, it had no bearing on our story.”
So if it’s not that film, what may or not it’s? May we comply with a number of the college students to varsity? Will one in all them develop into the following sensei of Miyagi-Do? Will we choose up with one other karate dojo within the Valley? And can this be a present, film, or one thing else solely? Absolutely we’ll discover out subsequent 12 months after Cobra Kai wraps up.
io9 may have way more from the Cobra Kai creators main as much as the primary a part of the sixth and closing season, which debuts on Netflix July 18. Catch up here.
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