Cobra Kai : Season 4 Expected to Start Shooting Today
On 1/20/21 at 7:35 AM EST
ProductionWeekly, which listed that the show would shoot from January 20 to April 15.
Though Netflix has not confirmed that the show has gone into production, and none of the major cast members have released social media posts from the set, there are a number of clear indications that filming is about to begin on the first season of
The Karate Kid spin-off actually filmed for Netflix Seasons 1 to 3 were filmed while the show was airing on YouTube (though Season 3 ended up at Netflix instead.)
The fact that production is about to begin on Cobra Kai 4 was confirmed by actor William Lex Ham, who has previously appeared on shows like
I never cried during the original The Karate Kid movie from 1984, but I welled up like an idiot during the recent spin-off series Cobra Kai. It was season one, episode nine, where the former
How ‘Cobra Kai’ Season 3 Sets Up the New Villain of Season 4
SPOILERS for Season 3 of Cobra Kai.
Cobra Kai likes to end each season with a big tease of a major returning character from
The Karate Kid movies. Season 1 concluded with the shocking arrival of John Kreese, Johnny Lawrence’s sensei from the original film. In Season 2’s final moments, Johnny got a Facebook message on his phone from Ali Mills, the girl he and Daniel LaRusso fought over 35 years earlier. And the last scenes of
Cobra Kai Season 3 strongly foreshadow the return of another
Karate Kid legacy character, who will almost certainly be the new villain of the show’s fourth season.
The scene that single-handedly ended
The Karate Kid trilogy happened in a side room in the Cobra Kai dojo, during a one-sided fight between Danny LaRusso and. a scarecrow-karate-sparring-dummy made of 2x4s and iron pipes? Unclear. Danny s with the Big Bad of
The Karate Kid: Part III, Terry Silver (posing as a do-gooding karate sensei to Danny), who, somehow, convinces him that punching the scarecrow-karate-sparring-dummy until his hands bleed will prepare him for victory in the next All Valley Karate Tournament. WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE, MR. LARUSSO! Silver screams, ponytail whipping around like it wants to detach itself and not be associated with the movie. LAST TIME YOU WEREN T FIGHTING THIS!
Jon Hurwitz: We wanted to bring Ali back. We wanted to go into Kreese’s past and do a whole Vietnam storyline. We wanted to go to Okinawa. Those were three big tent pole kind of elements of the season that we talked about. Also, our hope was to bring Johnny and Daniel by the end together and tease the audience along the way.
io9: When you teased the return of Ali at the end of season 2 was Elizabeth Shue already signed on and did you know what you were going to do with her if she did?
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Josh Heard: She was not signed on when we did that. That was an example of us leading with our confidence and our faith that the