The sensei are teaming up. On Tuesday, Sony released a trailer for Karate Kid: Legends, which will return the Karate Kid franchise to the big screen and unite two strands of the franchise for the first time. In the film, Ralph Macchio’s karate master Daniel LaRusso, from the ‘80s Karate Kid movies and “Cobra Kai,” and Jackie Chan’s kung fu teacher, Mr. Han, from the 2010 reboot with Jaden Smith, work together to train a teenage karate student named Li Fong (Ben Wang).
The trailer finds Mr. Han seeking Daniel’s help in training Li, a New Yorker with a lot of promise but some personal troubles. When they meet, Daniel assumes Han is looking for his late sensei, Mr. Miyagi (Pat Morita), who taught him everything he knows. “I did not come looking for Sensei Miyagi,” Han says. “I came looking for you.”
The cast also includes Joshua Jackson, Sadie Stanley, Ming-Na Wen, Aramis Knight, and Wyatt Oleff. The film is directed by Jonathan Entwistle and written by Rob Lieber.
The Karate Kid franchise started with the original film in 1984, which was followed by sequels in 1986, 1989, and 1994, the remake in 2010, and Cobra Kai in 2018. Karate Kid: Legends will be the first Karate Kid movie in 15 years, and will not be directly connected to Cobra Kai, the popular Netflix series starring Macchio. Cobra Kai is set to conclude in February 2025.
Karate Kid: Legends opens in theaters on May 30, 2025.
