When Cobra Kai Wrap his last season, with the last five episodes that now stream on Netflix, the makers of the series thinks about what the show has meant for viewers of all generations.
“That is really the nice thing about Cobra Kai […] The multigenerational audience, “said the co-maker Hayden Schlossberg of the Yahoo Entertainment series during the Saturn Awards in Los Angeles on 2 February.” You have the Gen X people who grew up with these characters, and then you have the Gen Z, Gen Alpha … the next generation of children, and you see the joy in their faces of the adults-that they can watch something that something she Like their children, and their children like it. ‘
Cobra Kai Was launched for the first time on YouTube in 2018, before he moved to the streamer in 2020. Schlossberg, together with his fellow makers Josh Heal and Jon Hurwitz, wanted to continue the story about the Karate Rivals, played by Ralph Macchio and William Zabka in the original 1984 Karate kid film. (While Macchio appeared in 1986 and 1989 Karate kid Continued as Danny Larusso, Zabka only appeared in the second film as Johnny Lawrence.)
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For their spin-off series, the Cobra Kai Makers focus on the character of Zabka, a former bad guy who rates with the character of Macchio and runs his own dojo, becoming a sensei for a new harvest of karate children.
“That often you look at something, and you put your brain in a certain mentality to view something that your child likes,” said Schlossberg. “This is something that you could view without your child, but your child is also in it, so you see how nice that is for both parents and children.”
From “Hard R-Rated Comedy” as the writer for films such as Harold and Kumar go to White CastleSchlossberg said that Cobra Kai Was a ‘tempo change’, but added that bringing this story to several generations was ‘one of the most rewarding parts’.
Xolo Maridueña, who plays Miguel Diaz in the series, told Yahoo Entertainment during the event that Zabka and Macchio are “two of the most gentlemanly people I know.” He says that he is “so grateful that the success of the show happened to them, because no one earns it more than she does.”
“We have been doing this for seven years. I can’t help it, but having the feeling: “Oh shoots, I really want to beat this out of the park for them.” It has been for me for seven years, but it has been for them since ’84, ‘he added.
While another Karate kid film, Karate Kid: Legendswill hit large screens in May, with Macchio in the lead role next to Jackie Chan, the Cobra Kai Makers said they would be interested in making a prequel with the background story of Mentor Mr. Miyagi (played by the late Pat Morita in the original films).
“There is nothing definitive that we can say about that or not be able to say, except that remains an important part of our fever-dream Continuation of this universe and this franchise,” Heald told Yahoo Entertainment UK earlier this month.
