Culture news Fans have been waiting for the final season of this Netflix series for 2 years, it's coming, but there's a problem!
Published on 05/13/2024 at 10:25
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Few franchises have had such an influence that they can be successfully revived decades later. Each cultural production being anchored in its time, it is sometimes painful to see certain cult productions being forcibly adapted to another context or to confront one's memories with reality. But, on rare occasions, it works very well.
From Karate Kid to Cobra Kai, 40 years of pop culture
Nearly 40 years ago now, people going to the cinema were able to discover The Karate Kid, a film by John G. Avildsen. Released under the title The Moment of Truth, this action film written by Robert Mark Kamen stars Daniel (Ralph Macchio), who leaves Texas to settle with his mother, Lucille, in California. At school, his new classmates dislike him and harass him. Daniel therefore learns karate with the help of an old Japanese who teaches him how to defend himself against thugs, notably played by William Zabka. Without revolutionizing the genre, The Karate Kid is praised for its sincerity and the chemistry between Pat Morita (Nariyoshi Kesuke Miyagi) and Ralph Macchio. The performances of the actors are solid, and this earned Pat Morita an Oscar and Golden Globe nomination in the category of best actor for a supporting role.
It was such a success that the film was featured in numerous other productions, including How I Met Your Mother, where actors from the film appear. This first feature film was followed by three other films, released in 1986, 1989 and 1994. The franchise made its comeback in 2010 through a remake in which we find Jayden Smith, and we expect a new film at the end of the year. But in 2018, it was decided to follow up the original four films. This is how thehe Cobra Kai series, set 34 years after the original film. There we find a fifty-year-old Johnny Lawrence adrift. He now lives in the Reseda district, far from the luxury of yesteryear. He had a son with Shannon Keene, but he abandoned them both on the day of the birth, which coincided with the day of his mother's death. To get out of it, he will rekindle old rivalries and try to reopen the Cobra Kai dojo.
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Cobra Kai Season 6 will arrive sooner than expected, but there's a catch
The series, released on YouTube Red and Netflix, was a great success and was renewed several times until a sixth and final season, whose release was initially pushed back to 2025 due to the writers' strike. However, we have bad news and good news. The bad news is that we will actually have to wait until the beginning of 2025 to be entitled to the conclusion. The maid, is that Netflix decided to cut the season into three parts to limit the wait. The first five episodes will arrive on Netflix on July 18, while we will have to wait until November 2024 to discover the rest. This decision, taken by the creators of the series, allows them to conclude the story in a more comprehensive way and not to sacrifice intrigues for formatting issues.
In total, season 6 of Cobra Kai will consist of 15 episodes, which gives ample time for the writers to explore the various ongoing storylines and provide the characters with a worthy finale. of what they experienced. In particular, we can expect that the return of John Kreese, the new family life of Johnny Lawrence and Carmen Diaz, and the consequences of Terry Silver's manipulations on his former students will be at the heart of the plot. If the Cobra Kai series is coming to an end, the Karate Kid universe is far from dead. A new Karate Kid film is in the works, starring Ralph Macchio and Jackie Chan. This film is set to take place several years after the events of Cobra Kai and explore new themes. Cobra Kai fans will have to be patient to discover the end of the story, but one thing is certain: the farewells promise to be epic.
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