According to Comicbook.com, the Cobra Kai’s creators, Jon Hurwitz (American Pie: Reunion, Blockers), Josh Heald (Hot Tub Time Machine, Plan B) and Hayden Schlossberg (Obliterated, Harold And Kumar Go To White Castle), have expressed interest in creating a prequel series following the beloved Mr. Myagi. In the original Karate Kid films, Mr. Myagi was played by the late Pat Morita.
As Cobra Kai finishes its final season, Schlossberg had this to say. “We think about spinoffs with Cobra Kai all the time. Cobra Kai itself is, in a way, a spinoff of The Karate Kid. We took the bully from The Karate Kid, we took that branch and created our own tree out of it, and we feel like we could do that with any of the characters on the show. We definitely thought about that as we’re tying things up with all the characters. We think about the fun of following them in their futures and in, addition, we think about the past.”
Schlossberg teased future series touching on Mr. Miyagi’s story. “It is one of the reasons why we did the Miyagi box story this season,” he continued. “It opens up all these questions about Mr. Miyagi and what his life was like, and that’s been something we’ve been wanting to do for a while. We’ve talked to Robert Mark Kamen (The Fifth Element, Taken), the writer of the original Karate Kid who based this whole movie off his sensei who studied Okinawan karate; we’ve been talking about all this Miyagi backstory with him, which helped us with season six stuff. Now that we’re done, we can actually start getting into this stuff. We’ve just been focused on Cobra Kai and finishing it off. And right now, we’re in the process of editing the last couple episodes. Once that’s done, we’ll hopefully have some exciting things.”
“When asked specifically about a Mr. Miyagi prequel, Schlossberg said, “I would say that we definitely want to do that and have been talking about that,” he added. “But the focus has been on Cobra Kai. As we’re finishing that up, we’ll see exactly what path we take in terms of spinoffs, but it is definitely something that we’ve been wanting to do. It’s just that we want to wait until we get finished with Cobra Kai first before we get into that.”