The original Karate Kid trilogy centered on the sensei-student relationship between Daniel Larusso (Ralph Macchio) and Mr. Miyagi (Noriyuki "Pat" Morita), with the entires set between 1984 and 1985.
Plot. In 1984, 17-year-old Daniel LaRusso and his mother Lucille move from Newark, New Jersey, to Reseda, Los Angeles, California. Their apartment's handyman is an eccentric but kind and humble Okinawan immigrant named Mr. Miyagi.
In real time, the span between Karate Kid III (1989) and the Next Karate Kid (1994) is five years, a span that sounds reasonable. Karate Kid III is set in 1985, and since Next Karate Kid seems set in modern times, the time elapsed between films would be 9 years. "You can't even speak English!" True?
Plot. In September 1985, just over nine months have passed since Daniel LaRusso won the All-Valley tournament and Mr. Miyagi defeated John Kreese, saving Johnny Lawrence from the attack. Kreese, now a humiliated and destitute alcoholic, has lost all of his students and the Dojo risks being closed down.
Before the plan for the new movie was revealed, Jackie Chan's 2010 Karate Kid remake was the only part of the franchise that wasn't officially part of the same canon. However, the movie is so different from the original that crossing them over won't cause any meta clashes among the Karate Kid 2024 cast.
It's an update that, along with the shifted setting and expanded characters, that makes The Karate Kid remake a worthwhile companion to the original. The Verdict: The 1984 original, by split decision, mainly because Macchio is so good.
In addition, Chan and Macchio announced a world-wide open casting call for an actor to star as the film's iteration of the titular character, described as a Chinese teen who moves to the East Coast and begins studying martial arts. In February 2024, Ben Wang was cast as the titular character, Li Fong.
The Karate Kid Part II occurred in the summer following Daniel's battle with Johnny Lawrence at the All-Valley Tournament, so Daniel and Mr. Miyagi's trip to Japan occurred in 1985. So, the character is still 18 through his and Ally's breakup, as well as his big battle with Chozen.
The Next Karate Kid is a 1994 American martial arts drama film directed by Christopher Cain, produced by Jerry Weintraub, and written by Mark Lee. It serves as the fourth installment in the Karate Kid franchise, following The Karate Kid Part III (1989).
Cobra Kai season 1 is set in 2017, 33 years after the first Karate Kid movie takes place. Across its five seasons, Cobra Kai continues the Karate Kid story all the way through to the summer of 2019, with Daniel and Johnny's personal animosity now almost four decades old.
Sony owned the Karate Kid franchise when the first four movies were made, but Smith's production company Overbrook Entertainment acquired the rights to spearhead the 2010 Karate Kid.
Development. The Karate Kid is a semi-autobiographical story based on the life of its screenwriter, Robert Mark Kamen. At age 17, after the 1964 New York World's Fair, Kamen was beaten up by a gang of bullies. He thus began to study martial arts in order to defend himself.
Work causes a single mother to move to China with her young son; in his new home, the boy embraces kung fu, taught to him by a master. Work causes a single mother to move to China with her young son; in his new home, the boy embraces kung fu, taught to him by a master.
Personal life. 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.
Netflix has announced a release date for Cobra Kai Season 6, revealing plans to kick off the three-part finale season this summer. Part 1 of the 15-episode season premieres July 18, 2024, with Part 2 set to arrive November 28, 2024.
William Zabka reprises his role as Johnny Lawrence, the antagonist in the original Karate Kid trilogy. Johnny was 16 years old in the first Karate Kid, born to Laura Lawrence and an absent father whose identity has never been revealed. Laura marries Sid Weinberg when Johnny is still very young.
The titular character, originally named Danny Webber, was renamed Daniel LaRusso to suit Macchio's Italian-American heritage. In the film, Daniel is a New Jersey kid who has just relocated to California and is suffering at the hands of a gang of boys who are part of a local karate school called Cobra Kai.
At the start of Cobra Kai, she is approximately 15 or 16 years old. The only daughter in the LaRusso family, Samantha LaRusso began learning Miyagi-Do Karate at a very young age and is now very experienced at the age of 17.
Miyagi was 86 years old, when he died in 2011. In 1984, the year the first Karate Kid was filmed, his character would have been around 59 years old. The actor, Pat Morita, who played Mr. Miyagi was 52 years old in 1984.
Apart from four jiu-jitsu lessons when I was 10, I had no martial arts experience. Before filming, I was trained in Okinawan Gōjū-ryū karate by Pat E Johnson, who coordinated the fight scenes and played the head referee in the tournament at the end of the film.
Unfortunately, due to strike-related delays which sidetracked the filming of Cobra Kai season 6, Karate Kid will now be released on May 30, 2025. This move reveals that both the final season of Cobra Kai and the upcoming reboot are intricately linked. Kraven the Hunter will now take the December 2024 release slot.
The Karate Kid is a 2010 martial arts drama film directed by Harald Zwart and produced by Jerry Weintraub, Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith, James Lassiter, and Ken Stovitz, from a screenplay written by Christopher Murphey, based on a story conceived by Robert Mark Kamen, the writer of the first three Karate Kid films.
