Sony Pictures has a new trailer for Katarte Kid: Legends and if your a fan of this franchise, I think you’re going to love what it has offer! Ralph Macchio’s Daniel LaRusso and Jackie Chan’s Mr. Han are teaming up to help train Han’s grandson Li Fong (Ben Wang) to fight to survive the New York City karate bullies.
LaRusso and Chan claim to be two branches of the same tree and together they will teach Fong a martial arts style mixed with Kung-Fu and Miyagi-Do Karate. This looks like another fun chapter in the franchise!
Li Fong is a Beijing-based teenager who moves to New York City with his mother (Ming-Na Wen). “The teen’s transition to the Big Apple is, in a word, sour: Li has trouble fitting in at his new school, and he keeps getting dragged into fights he would very much like to avoid.
“When a new friend needs his help, Li enters a karate competition — but his skills alone aren’t enough. Li’s kung fu teacher Mr. Han (Chan) enlists original Karate Kid Daniel LaRusso (Macchio) for help, and Li learns a new way to fight, merging their two styles into one for the ultimate martial arts showdown.”
Director Jonathan Entwistle teases LaRusso’s involvement saying: “Without giving too much away, I can say that Mr. Han and Mr. Miyagi are the connection to Daniel.
“The Han family and the Miyagi family are connected all the way back to the old times. And there is a mention of this within the Karate Kid movie canon for those people who want to go looking for it.”
When talking about the New York City setting for the film, the director said: “It’s the idea of — in a classic Karate Kid sense — the fish out of water. Ben’s character, Li, is finding his way around the city, and he gets embroiled in the middle of something that’s going to force him to have to stand up and fight.
“I was really excited about how can we make New York feel like a character — not just visually, but how can it interact with the way he’s feeling and what he’s doing?
“We piece that together by shooting on location, and we built some pieces of New York [on soundstages]. There are a lot of areas that really involve the skyline of Manhattan, and you see little hints of that in the poster for the movie.
“It was important that it felt like we were getting some joy from the action sequences, and fighting and training in the city really gives you that.”
As far as the action sequence go, he said: “We set out to make something that was both cinematic and action-packed. The fight sequences, they’re really exciting. My hope is that when you’re sitting in that theater, you’re on the edge of your seat.”
“I was excited about the idea that the films and the series can all be part of one family. I’ve had some really detailed conversations with the Cobra Kai team about just cool stuff that we can do in the movie and can make this whole thing feel holistic.”
When talking about the films connection to Cobra Kai, the director said: “And obviously, Ralph is really, really close to it after all those years on Cobra Kai, and they’ve been involved in little steps along the way.
“Everything we talked about made it into the movie in some way or other, either through Ralph or through the conversations. We’re really excited that we’ve added another piece to the overall universe.”
Karate Kid: Legends takes place three years after the events of Cobra Kai and it premieres in theaters Friday, May 30, 2025.
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