The Karate Kid (2010) Dre was an average 12-year-old boy, who was enjoying life in Detroit, Michigan, about to start middle school as the following school year soon approached.
It is the first installment in the Karate Kid franchise, and stars Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Elisabeth Shue, and William Zabka. The Karate Kid follows the story of Daniel LaRusso (Macchio), an Italian-American teenager from New Jersey who moves with his widowed mother to the Reseda neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Jaden Smith(I) Jaden Smith is an actor, known for The Pursuit of Happyness (2006), The Karate Kid (2010) and After Earth (2013). In addition to being an actor he is also a dancer, songwriter and rapper who won an MTV award for his performance in The Pursuit of Happyness.
The short answer: It was a remake, and the original was named THE KARATE KID. Having the marketing hook of a previous success can add coins at the box office. When the producers decided to move the film to China and Chinese Martial Arts, they decided to keep the original title.
Jaden Smith was much younger than Ralph Macchio was when acting the part of the original Karate Kid, Daniel LaRusso. Macchio was 22 at the time, playing the role of a 17-year-old teenager, while Smith was 11 and cast to play 12-year-old, Dre Parker.
They bond over their mutual amusement over how absurd it seems. Ali, Johnny, and Daniel then tell stories of high school over dinner. During this time, Ali reveals that what actually caused her breakup with Daniel was his jealousy over a college friend of hers (which Daniel mistook for a love affair).
Ali Mills, M.D. (formerly Ali Mills Schwarber) is the high school love interest of Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence in the 1984 The Karate Kid film. She returns to the San Fernando Valley in Season 3 of Cobra Kai as a soon-to-be divorced adult, and reconnects with her old flings.
Elizabeth Shue, beloved star and teen heartthrob, stole millions of kids adoration as the love interest to Daniel in the Karate Kid. Elizabeth Shue was born on October 6, 1963 making her 20 years old at the time of filming!
Macchio was introduced to his future wife, Phyllis Fierro, by his grandmother when he was 15. They got married on April 5, 1987, and have two children. Fierro is a nurse practitioner.
What's even more surprising is that Macchio is actually five months older than actor Thomas Ian Griffith, who played Terry Silver in the third Karate Kid movie, and reprises his role in Cobra Kai. That said, Daniel LaRusso is 53 years old in the show, and Macchio is 61.
William Zabka was born on 20 October 1965 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Karate Kid (1984), Back to School (1986) and Hot Tub Time Machine (2010) He has been married to Stacie Lynn Doss since 2008.
Karate (空手) (/kəˈrɑːti/; Japanese pronunciation: [kaɾate]; Okinawan pronunciation: [kaɽati]), also karate-do (空手道, Karate-dō), is a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Kingdom. It developed from the indigenous Ryukyuan martial arts (called te (手), "hand"; tī in Okinawan) under the influence of Chinese martial arts.
Dre then heads to see Mr. Han, but finds him drunk and depressed, smashing a car he was working on. Mr. Han explains that he crashed the same car years ago, killing his wife Zhang and 10-year-old son Gong Gong.
Jonathan Entwistle is onboard to direct the new film from a screenplay by Rob Lieber, with Karen Rosenfeld producing. The new “Karate Kid” movie will be both a sequel to the original 80s era theatrical series and the blockbuster 2010 remake.
But the lovey-dovey couple broke up on prom night, as Daniel relayed to Mr. Miyagi in The Karate Kid Part II. Daniel explained in his periwinkle tuxedo that Ali not only crashed the car Mr. Miyagi gave him but also cheated on him with a UCLA football player.
Over the summer, Daniel gets to spend more time with Mr. Miyagi as they go to Okinawa, where Daniel ends up meeting a girl named Kumiko who becomes his love interest and eventual girlfriend along with also getting into a rivalry with Chozen, who is Sato's karate student and nephew.
In The Karate Kid Part II, Daniel visits Mr Miyagi (Pat Morita) the morning after the high school prom, where he explains that Ali wrecked Miyagi's car, and left him for a football player from UCLA.
Han call Dre "Xiao Dre"? （小） "Xiao" in Mandarin literally means "small" or "little". In this case, like in the original where Mr Miyagi calls Daniel "Daniel-san", Mr. Han is calling Dre "Little Dre" because Dre is obviously younger than him.
Not much information is available for the salaries and backend points he earned for his original three The Karate Kid movies. It's likely that he made upwards of $200,000 at the most for the first, which was a good salary. He had already been in a bunch of TV shows and some movies, so $200,000 could have been offered.
