Cobra Kai fans can rest easy knowing the creators want to make at least two more seasons of the show. With season 4 wrapped, and season 5 already confirmed, Cobra Kai's creators are thinking about their endgame plan.
Speaking to Collider, creator and Executive Producer Josh Heald said the team is still writing with plans past season 5, but characters and storylines that happen naturally during production can alter the timeline.
"It’s changed at times, but it also hasn’t," Heald said. "We still have an endgame plan. We’re still writing beyond Season 5. But it’s been fun to bring in those new characters and storylines and let them lead the way sometimes.”
Show creator Jon Hurwitz added they've, "always viewed it as at least six" seasons, but they're still figuring out the exact length to stick the landing.
"There are characters and storylines that we've considered that, from the beginning, we would have said, 'Okay, that's a season,' and that storyline ended up being an episode or two. And then there's the opposite of that where you say, 'Okay, this is a season,' and now we're going to extend that into multiple seasons," Hurwitz says. "So we've always looked back at our original plan with open eyes[.]"
Cobra Kai continues The Karate Kid saga, following original film protagonist and antagonist Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence decades after the events of the original movie, as Lawrence reopens the Cobra Kai Dojo and starts teaching karate.
The series originally premiered on YouTube’s abandoned streaming service, YouTube Red. Netflix became the new home for the show for season 3, but season 4 is the first season Netflix has produced. Netflix already renewed Cobra Kai for a fifth season, making the announcement last August, months before season 4 even debuted.
Cobra Kai's fourth season just hit Netflix on December 31, and it continues the show's solid run. In our Cobra Kai season 4 review, we said, "A different kind of hokeyness is evident in Season 4, but it’s met by more complex emotional journeys and unexpected team-ups that will leave fans counting down the days until Season 5."
Logan Plant is a freelance writer for IGN. You can find him on Twitter @LoganJPlant.
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Speaking to Collider, creator and Executive Producer Josh Heald said the team is still writing with plans past season 5, but characters and storylines that happen naturally during production can alter the timeline.
"It’s changed at times, but it also hasn’t," Heald said. "We still have an endgame plan. We’re still writing beyond Season 5. But it’s been fun to bring in those new characters and storylines and let them lead the way sometimes.”
Show creator Jon Hurwitz added they've, "always viewed it as at least six" seasons, but they're still figuring out the exact length to stick the landing.
"There are characters and storylines that we've considered that, from the beginning, we would have said, 'Okay, that's a season,' and that storyline ended up being an episode or two. And then there's the opposite of that where you say, 'Okay, this is a season,' and now we're going to extend that into multiple seasons," Hurwitz says. "So we've always looked back at our original plan with open eyes[.]"
Cobra Kai continues The Karate Kid saga, following original film protagonist and antagonist Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence decades after the events of the original movie, as Lawrence reopens the Cobra Kai Dojo and starts teaching karate.
The series originally premiered on YouTube’s abandoned streaming service, YouTube Red. Netflix became the new home for the show for season 3, but season 4 is the first season Netflix has produced. Netflix already renewed Cobra Kai for a fifth season, making the announcement last August, months before season 4 even debuted.
Cobra Kai's fourth season just hit Netflix on December 31, and it continues the show's solid run. In our Cobra Kai season 4 review, we said, "A different kind of hokeyness is evident in Season 4, but it’s met by more complex emotional journeys and unexpected team-ups that will leave fans counting down the days until Season 5."
Logan Plant is a freelance writer for IGN. You can find him on Twitter @LoganJPlant.
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