Ralph Macchio Shares His Thoughts On A 'Cobra Kai' Prequel Starring Mr. Miyagi
The success of Cobra Kai is proof that audiences are still interested in The Karate Kid story, and invested in the characters introduced in the original movies. While anyone with a Netflix subscription can now catch up on what's going on with Daniel LaRusso and most of his past adversaries in the present day, there's one key character the Netflix series won't feature for new adventures. Mr. Miyagi can't appear in new scenes of Cobra Kai, but could a prequel series happen? CinemaBlend asked actor Ralph Macchio about just that, and he had some thoughts.
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00:00 - I would love to, you know,
00:02 what is the young Miyagi story?
00:04 What was, who was that teenager and that man in his twenties
00:07 and who went to World War II and lost his wife and child,
00:12 which is all part of the karate,
00:13 original Karate Kid film.
00:14 And what led that guy in the history that we,
00:19 little pieces of the history that we learned from him
00:21 in Karate Kid Part Two in Okinawa,
00:24 what led this guy to be a maintenance man
00:27 in a small apartment building,
00:28 in Reseda, kind of a mirror of what Johnny Lawrence
00:31 started out with in the first season of Cobra Kai.
00:34 So it's all ripe to be there, whether it, whatever it is,
00:38 I would love to see it.
00:40 There have been discussions, but nothing, once again,
00:43 nothing official, but I would love to,
00:46 and I know Pat always wanted to dive more into
00:51 what, how Miyagi became, you know,
00:55 the man that we got to know.
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