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11-06-2020, 12:23 AM
https://www.looper.com/271836/the-mr-miyagi-idea-in-karate-kid-5-that-could-have-changed-cobra-kai/
How would Mr. Miyagi and Johnny Lawrence have crossed paths in a Karate Kid Part 5?
As Zabka discussed during an interview with Collider (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I213CnQXdoU), sometime shortly before Pat Morita died in 2005, he called up his former co-star. "He said, 'BZ BZ, I have a great idea for Karate Kid 5.'" Zabka explains that Morita's concept would have involved an ailing Mr. Miyagi (https://www.looper.com/263483/the-samantha-larusso-and-mr-miyagi-theory-that-has-cobra-kai-fans-talking/) preparing for his death and receiving a formal send-off. "He wanted him to have a proper Okinawan burial," Zabka continues, "but while he's sick, he saw Johnny Lawrence as being his doctor, and I thought that was interesting."
Johnny Lawrence, M.D., is pretty far from the alcoholic handyman depicted at the start of Cobra Kai, and presumably would have given the writers behind Morita's hypothetical movie a chance to explore a different version of how old wounds can either fester or become healed. How would Dr. Lawrence react when his rival and the old sensei arrived in his hospital? Would a successful Johnny have invested in a reborn Cobra Kai if, say, one of his old friends had been the one to start it up? Or would he have opposed its creation, still angry at John Kreese's attack after the All-Valley tournament?
Zabka says in the interview that this version is closer to how he envisioned Johnny's life in the years before Cobra Kai. "To me at the end Johnny was liberated. He probably found a good path."
Audiences can see Johnny's ongoing search for something resembling a good path when Cobra Kai season 3 debuts on Netflix in January 2021.
Read More: https://www.looper.com/271836/the-mr-miyagi-idea-in-karate-kid-5-that-could-have-changed-cobra-kai/?utm_campaign=clip
How would Mr. Miyagi and Johnny Lawrence have crossed paths in a Karate Kid Part 5?
As Zabka discussed during an interview with Collider (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I213CnQXdoU), sometime shortly before Pat Morita died in 2005, he called up his former co-star. "He said, 'BZ BZ, I have a great idea for Karate Kid 5.'" Zabka explains that Morita's concept would have involved an ailing Mr. Miyagi (https://www.looper.com/263483/the-samantha-larusso-and-mr-miyagi-theory-that-has-cobra-kai-fans-talking/) preparing for his death and receiving a formal send-off. "He wanted him to have a proper Okinawan burial," Zabka continues, "but while he's sick, he saw Johnny Lawrence as being his doctor, and I thought that was interesting."
Johnny Lawrence, M.D., is pretty far from the alcoholic handyman depicted at the start of Cobra Kai, and presumably would have given the writers behind Morita's hypothetical movie a chance to explore a different version of how old wounds can either fester or become healed. How would Dr. Lawrence react when his rival and the old sensei arrived in his hospital? Would a successful Johnny have invested in a reborn Cobra Kai if, say, one of his old friends had been the one to start it up? Or would he have opposed its creation, still angry at John Kreese's attack after the All-Valley tournament?
Zabka says in the interview that this version is closer to how he envisioned Johnny's life in the years before Cobra Kai. "To me at the end Johnny was liberated. He probably found a good path."
Audiences can see Johnny's ongoing search for something resembling a good path when Cobra Kai season 3 debuts on Netflix in January 2021.
Read More: https://www.looper.com/271836/the-mr-miyagi-idea-in-karate-kid-5-that-could-have-changed-cobra-kai/?utm_campaign=clip