'Karate Kid' Sequel Gets Title, Trip To NYCC With Venom & Kraven
'Karate Kid' Sequel Gets Title, Trip To NYCC With Venom & Kraven
The best convention around waxes on with 'Karate Kid: Legends'
Put good into the world and good will come to New York Comic-Con. Ralph Macchio is a title character in the Karate Kid franchise again as Sony Pictures has revealed the title for the upcoming sequel which unites Macchio’s realm of the franchise, where he stars as Daniel LaRusso in three films and currently in the final season of the Netflix series Cobra Kai, with that of Jackie Chan’s, whose 2010 film with Jaden Smith was conceived and produced as a remake. The film releasing May 30, 2025 is now known as Karate Kid: Legends.
It has also been announced that the film will be part of a Sony Pictures film slate panel at New York Comic-Con on the Empire Stage of the Javits Center on Friday, October 18 from 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, along with their Marvel Spider-Man villain films Venom: The Last Dance, which opens the following week, and Kraven the Hunter, which moved into Legends’s original December 13 spot in April, soon after casting began. Panelists have not been confirmed.
The new kid of Karate Kid: Legends is Li Fong a Chinese teen played by Ben Wang who moves to the United States East Coast, where he finds strength and direction through martial arts and a tough but wise mentor or two. No other plot details have been revealed, mostly still under wraps. Besides Macchio, Chan, and Wang, the cast includes Sadie Stanley as the love interest, Joshua Jackson, currently starring on ABC’s Doctor Odyssey, as her father Victor, and Shaunette Renée Wilson as Ms. Morgan. Ming-Na Wen, Aramis Knight, Wyatt Oleff, and Jennifer-Lyn Christie are cast in roles that still haven’t been revealed yet.
Karate Kid: Legends directed by Jonathan Entwistle, the man whose past work includes I’m Not Okay with This and The End of the F***ing World. His involvement in rebooting Power Rangers was finally confirmed to have ended in June as it was revealed it had gone back into redevelopment and was dropped by Netflix. It is written by Rob Lieber, whose credits include Sony’s Peter Rabbit and Disney’s 2014 Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day.
Source: Comic Book Resources