Cobra Kai, the new trailer and everything we know about the fifth season

The debut of the new season of Cobra Kai: the sequel series that from 2018 takes up the events of the cult saga Karate Kid. Also in these new episodes the veterans Ralph Macchio and William Zabka They reprise the roles of Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence, with whom they made their screen debut in 1984: more than thirty years later, the former bitter rivals must put aside discord to ally themselves against a mutual friend. Is in the trailer of the fifth seasoncoming in September on Netflixlet’s see what will be the challenge that the two will have to face thanks to the help of old and new allies:

The unreleased episodes will pick up the story immediately after the conclusion of the fourth season: the end of the All Valley karate tournament, which should have resolved the situation of the dojos of the two protagonists, only makes things worse. The brutal John Kreeseinterpreted by Martin Kove (also an old acquaintance from the original films) – who had promised to leave Cobra Kai if his team lost the tournament – is eventually sent to jail by Terry Silver (Thomas Ian Griffith)another antagonist resurrected from the times of Karate Kid III. Now Silver is expanding his martial arts schools across the city, while Daniel and Johnny, dejected, try to move on, closing their gymnasiums and even changing jobs (although Johnny’s career as an Uber driver is certainly not a success). It will be their students, however, who will rekindle the flame of hope and push them to come back to join forces.

Next to them we also find Yuji Okumoto in the role of Chozen Toguchialso antagonist of Karate Kid II cBut he has now put aside his rivalry with Daniel to help him save his dojo. There will also be room for some parallel stories, such as Johnny and son Robby Che they leave for Mexico in search of the young Miguel, who in turn wants to find his father. About the latter there are those who are willing to bet that it is Mike Barnesother bad of Karate Kid III, whose return has already been confirmed earlier. Also in this new season, moreover, there will be surprises: “There will be a lot of crazy things and if you are a fan of the saga maybe new familiar faces will appear, or not. For sure there will be a lot of karate“, he has declared John Hurwitz, one of the creators of the series. To find out what these follies and surprises will be, all that remains is to wait for the September 9when the fifth season of Cobra Kaijust nine months after the previous one, will land on Netflix.