The creators behind Cobra Kai want to make at least six seasons of the Netflix show.
Despite audiences having only just basked in the continuing greatness that is Cobra Kai season 4, co-creators Josh Heald and Josh Hurwitz are already looking as far into the future with a potential season 6. During an interview with Collider, Heald revealed that the team behind the hugely popular Netflix show are now planning out not only a sixth season, but also their ultimate endgame, all the while evolving characters and plot points across the entirety of Cobra Kai’s run so far and into potential seasons to come.
“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. So we’ve always looked back at our original plan with open eyes because with so many new branches and so many new characters and interactions and what you’re seeing during production when, ‘Oh wow, these two people together, there’s something interesting about that duo,’ you want to lean more into it and when you do lean more into it, it naturally pushes other things along and further out. It’s changed at times, but it also hasn’t. 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.”
Josh Heald’s fellow co-writer, co-showrunner and Josh, Josh Hurwitz, added that they are hoping to make at least six seasons of Cobra Kai, and that while they clearly have an ending to the story in mind, they aren’t yet sure how many seasons it will take to get there.
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“We’ve never said from the beginning how many seasons there would be. I think we always viewed it as at least six was sort of in our heads, but we’re still figuring out exactly what the length for that landing is for all the reasons that Josh mentioned.”
With the ongoing success of Cobra Kai, it’s pretty safe to assume that Heald and Hurwitz will get their six seasons. At least. The fourth season of Cobra Kai, which hit Netflix on December 31, sees Karate Kid icons Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) and Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) form an unsteady alliance in order to combat the growing influence of John Kreese (Marton Kove). Things quickly get even worse for our heroes as Kreese brings his own partner into the fray in the form of the returning villain Terry Silver. Last seen in The Karate Kid Part III, Silver is a character that many fans had hoped would make a comeback, with the bad guy duo sure to cause all manner of chaos across the Valley.
Cobra Kai season 4 has been met with rave reviews from both critics and audiences alike, and currently sits at a deliciously fresh 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, which should bode well for a proposed season 6 and beyond. In more good news, season 5 of Cobra Kai has already wrapped.
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