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Cobra Kai star Ralph Macchio revealed how he fought to make sure that “Karate Child: Legends” opened after the finale of the hit Netflix collection.
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There was a time when The Karate Child franchise star Ralph Macchio was more than pleased to maneuver on from the franchise he helped construct alongside the late Pat Morita. Whereas he lampooned his Daniel LaRusso on sure events, the chance to inform the subsequent chapter and grow to be a sensei himself on Netflix’s Cobra Kai grew to become simply the factor the actor wanted to reinvigorate not solely his love for the franchise, alongside his 1984 movie co-star William Zabka, in one of the vital unlikely redemption tales on tv. It additionally paved the best way and opened Macchio to new potentialities, together with accepting, maybe at one level, a then-unfeasible crossover with the 2010 Karate Child remake with star Jackie Chan for the most recent movie Karate Child: Legends, which sees the 2 senseis cross paths. Macchio spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about why he felt it was proper to delay Legend’s launch to present franchise followers one thing after the ultimate 5 episodes of the sixth and remaining season of Cobra Kai, which was launched in February 2025. The next accommodates minor spoilers.
Karate Child: Legends Star Ralph Macchio on Why He Did not Need Movie’s Launch to Battle with ‘Cobra Kai’
Earlier than the thought of Legends got here to Macchio, the actor firmly established that the Chan and Jaden Smith-starred movie differed from the unique movie canon because it did not contain Morita’s character, because it was deemed the “Miyagi-verse.” “I used to be territorial upon first listening to of [2010’s The Karate Kid]. I did not perceive what they have been going for, and I had walked within the footwear for so lengthy. I simply felt, ‘How are you going to do a retread of [1984’s ‘The Karate Kid’]?'” Macchio stated. “However they made a film that was well-crafted and extremely profitable. I at all times describe that film as a lesson in how one can inform nearly the identical story, however nonetheless make it a very completely different film.”
Director Jonathan Entwistle and author Rob Lieber discovered a solution to have Chan’s Mr. Han tie into the Miyagi-verse because it’s his ancestors who taught one in every of Nariyoshi’s (Morita) ancestors kung-fu in China, which helped give beginning to Miyagi-Do Karate, tapping into the lore from 1986’s Half II, which is ready in Japan. The movie sees Mr. Han search Daniel in his L.A. dwelling to assist prepare his pupil, Li Fong (Ben Wang) within the methods of Miyagi-Do Karate in New York Metropolis. Karate Kid: Legends, which takes place three years after the occasions of Cobra Kai, had quite a few launch dates, with June, then December 2024, earlier than its remaining launch date of Might 30.
“When [‘Karate Kid: Legends’] was initially slated for a December 13, 2024, launch, I used to be screaming continuously on daily basis: ‘This film has to return out after [Cobra Kai] finishes,'” Macchio stated. “And as soon as advertising and marketing acquired collectively and realized that [the December ’24 release] wouldn’t profit both, they did the appropriate factor [by delaying until May 2025]. ‘Karate Child: Legends’ is now coming at a time the place I wish to imagine that ‘Cobra Kai’ followers are thirsty for one other chapter.” So far as the way forward for Daniel and the Karate Child franchise, Cobra Kai has left breadcrumbs with some attention-grabbing pairings to start out, together with the 2 authentic leads sharing a meal at a sushi restaurant as Johnny teaches his subsequent class, and Daniel persevering with on his duties working his household auto dealership whereas appearing as a co-sensei for Johnny’s Cobra Kai and educating Miyagi-Do.
“There are a number of balls up within the air. I do not know which one goes to land. I hope all of them do, or a few of them do, or one in every of them does,” Macchio stated. “The success of ‘Karate Child: Legends’ might propel all that stuff. It is completely different, however the identical. There is a Miyagi-ism for you.” Karate Child: Legends, which additionally stars Joshua Jackson, Sadie Stanley, Wyatt Oleff, and Armis Knight, is in theaters. For extra on the movie, you possibly can take a look at the entire interview. All six seasons of Cobra Kai and the primary three Karate Child movies can be found on Netflix.
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