Cobra Kai is a continuation of 80’s popular The Karate Kid saga. It is inspired by the first movie The Karate Kid which was shot in 1984. The series has two other films in 1986 and 1989, starring Ralph Macchio. Also, there is a fourth film which has Hilary Swank in the leading role in 1994 named The Next Karate Kid and another spin-off movie which has Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith in the leading roles in 2010. But our series doesn’t have any connection with them except for the first one.
Cobra Kai‘s script was written by Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz, Robert Mark Kamen, and Hayden Schlossberg. Heald, Hurwitz, and Schlossberg trio are together in the director and the producer seat. Apart from these three, Ralph Macchio, William Zabka, Jason Belleville, James Lassiter, Caleeb Pinkett, and Will Smith are in the producer team.
The beginning of our story dates back to 1984. The path of the two, who have fought for the same girl in high school, who fought against each other in the All-Valley Karate Tournament, and who hate each other, crosses again after 34 years and the past slowly starts to come to light.
We can say that the villain of the movie is Johnny Lawrence and he is the main character of our show. We start to see the story from his point of view and get to know him closely. Johnny Lawrence is a man around his 50’s whose life didn’t go well, is full of past regrets and drinking and he has his boundaries with other people. When he is living his empty life he sees his neighbor, a young high school kid who was beaten badly by the high school bullies. In the beginning, he doesn’t really care about the fight but when the heat of the fight comes to his beloved car than him, he can’t keep his cool and starts beating the bullies with his karate skills which were getting rusty. Our bullied high school kid, Miguel, admires Johnny’s karate skills and starts to want to learn how to defend himself in these kinds of situations.
Even though it wasn’t an easy task, he manages to convince Johnny to be his mentor and the legend of karate hall Cobra Kai starts again.
After the opening of Cobra Kai, Johnny Lawrence and Daniel LaRusso start to see each other more often and mutual stubbornness becomes much entertaining when the young ones are involved.
