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‘Cobra Kai’ is bringing back Mister Miyagi through a ‘Karate Kid’ prequel series
Cobra Kai is revitalizing the Karate Kid franchise with plans for a new prequel series all about Mister Miyagi’s hidden past.
The sixth and final season of ‘Cobra Kai’ has opened a real Pandora’s Box. And the fact that the “Miyagi box” that reveals the teacher’s hidden past showed up was not a coincidence: those in charge have confessed in a recent interview that it was something deliberate in view of an upcoming prequel series about the life of Mister Miyagi, interpreted by Pat Morita in the original ‘Karate Kid’ movies.
WARNING: Spoilers ahead for the sixth season of ‘Cobra Kai’. You have been warned!
A prequel series of Miyagi’s life is set to arrive after the end of ‘Cobra Kai’
Hayden Schlossberg, Josh Helad, and John Hurwitz are the people responsible for ‘Cobra Kai’, the sequel series to the legendary films in the ‘Karate Kid’ saga. In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter they revealed their intention to create a prequel series based on the life of Mr. Miyagi, played in the original tetralogy by the late Pat Morita.
According to Schlossberg, “We think about spinoffs with Cobra Kai all the time. Cobra Kai itself is, in a way, a spinoff of The Karate Kid. We took the bully from The Karate Kid, we took that branch and created our own tree out of it, and we feel like we could do that with any of the characters on the show. We definitely thought about that as we’re tying things up with all the characters. We think about the fun of following them in their futures and in, addition, we think about the past. It is one of the reasons why we did the Miyagi box story this season.”
“It opens up all these questions about Mr. Miyagi and what his life was like, and that’s been something we’ve been wanting to do for a while. We’ve talked to Robert Mark Kamen, the writer of the original Karate Kid who based this whole movie off his sensei who studied Okinawan karate; we’ve been talking about all this Miyagi backstory with him, which helped us with season six stuff. Now that we’re done, we can actually start getting into this stuff. We’ve just been focused on Cobra Kai and finishing it off. And right now, we’re in the process of editing the last couple episodes. Once that’s done, we’ll hopefully have some exciting things… "
With “Miyagi’s box”, Schlossberg refers to a key plot point of the sixth season of ‘Cobra Kai’. Daniel LaRusso finds a hidden box in Miyagi’s former residence where he finds personal effects of his former teacher that reveal that he was not who he said he was: at some point in his past, he was a boxer, bought a new identity because he killed someone else, and even participated in the prestigious Sekai Taikai martial arts tournament.
According to this interview, we can correctly deduce that these new elements regarding the background of the figure of Mr. Miyagi were added as a hook for this new prequel series of which for now nothing more is known. The sixth and final season of ‘Cobra Kai’ is divided into three parts of five episodes each; The first batch is available from 07/18/2024, the second will be ready on 11/15/2024 and the third and final part will premiere in 2025.
Or what is the same: In any case, this new series of Mr. Miyagi’s life will arrive at least in 2025 once ‘Cobra Kai’ ends with the last episodes of its sixth season. It is unknown which actor will play this “new” Miyagi during his adult life. before his stage as an honorable sensei.
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