COBRA KAI PRODUCER SHARES STATUS UPDATE ON POSSIBLE SPINOFFS AT NETFLIX AFTER SERIES FINALE
Cobra Kai is over, after a six-season run culminating with the finale on Netflix. Though the sequel series to The Karate Kid franchise may be over, the future for Daniel LaRusso is wide open with Karate Kid: Legendspremiering in 2025 - starring Jackie Chan and Ralph Macchio.
Though that may not be the only sequel that could happen. Whilst the main story of Cobra Kai is over, there’s now a whole army of karate kids/teenagers scattered across the world, and with so many characters going to so many places, there are ample possibilities for the future of the franchise on streaming.
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How The Finale Of Cobra Kai Left The Door Open
The final five episodes of Cobra Kai gave fans some truly shocking ends to some characters, but it also took some of the All Valley fighters and put them in positions for epic adventures. In the culminating season finale, viewers not only saw Johnny taking over Cobra Kai, but also several of the heroes getting the endings they wanted.
Robby and Tory (Tanner Buchanan and Peyton List) became professional athletes with their own brands. Hawk and Dimitri (Jacob Bertrand and Gianni DeCenzo) officially mended their fences as the bros head off for Caltech. Meanwhile, Sam and Miguel (Mary Mouser and Xolo Maridueña) go off to Okinawa, putting further away from The Valley but a little closer to Choszen (Yuji Okumoto) who’d decided to join Eun-Da (Alicia Hannah-Kim) in Korea after she took over her grandfather’s dojo.
With so many different paths ahead for the characters, there are so many possibilities for future stories - and the showrunners know it.
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What The Current Plans Are For Cobra Kai Sequels
Unfortunately, there are currently no fixed plans for spinoffs of Cobra Kai. But that doesn’t mean there won’t be, as the showrunners have ample ideas for where the next story could take them, as they confirmed in a Screen Rant interview.
"Well, we can't say anything official about any Cobra Kai spinoffs," it was said. "All that we can say officially is that we've been talking about nonstop and working behind the scenes on multiple different possibilities. But we will have to wait for that official announcement. We're hopeful that we can continue working in this universe. It's been so fun."
Well, we can't say anything official about any Cobra Kai spinoffs.
All seasons of Cobra Kai are available to stream now on Netflix.
Source: ScreenRant
Cobra Kai
Set decades after the events of the Karate Kid franchise, Cobra Kai shifts gears and puts viewers into the perspective of a former rival/antagonist, Johnny Lawrence. In his 50s and down on his luck, a chance encounter with a bullied young man leads Johnny back to Karate. Agreeing to help him, Johnny takes the opportunity to revive his former home, the Cobra Kai dojo - becoming a refuge for outcast teens.
Summary
Cobra Kai is a continuation of the famous Karate Kid franchise, with Ralph Macchio and William Zabka reprising their roles from the movie several years later. Set thirty years after the All Valley Karate Tournament in 1984, the series focuses on Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) reopening the Cobra Kai dojo. When down-on-his-luck Johnny Lawrence loses his job as a handyman in Los Angeles, he discovers his neighbor, Miguel Diaz(Xolo Mariduena), being bullied. When Miguel begs to be trained by Johnny, he reluctantly accepts, setting up the revival of the Cobra Kai Dojo, the soon-to-be home of many more outcasts that all unite under the dojo. Unfortunately, this revival reignites the rivalry between Daniel and Johnny, leading to the series' secondary conflict.The project was first announced in August 2017 after YouTube gave Cobra Kai a series order. Cobra Kai was eventually moved to Netflix from season 3 onwards. Season 5 premiered on September 9 2022 and focuses on Daniel and Johnny teaming up together to bring down the recently usurped Cobra Kai after Silver cheats to win at the All-Valley Karate Tournament in 2019.
