Cobra Kai season 3 trailer, release date, spoilers and everything else we know

Cobra Kai flavour 3 trailer, release date, spoilers and everything else we know

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A new Cobra Kai flavor 3 release date simply dropped, and for one time it's proficient news! The side by side season will roundhouse-kick fans into loftier gear before than expected, every bit Netflix prepares to release the evidence in just a few weeks. Cobra Kai season 3 already looks astonishing from the sneak peek photos and teaser nosotros've seen, but the new trailer has the states even more than excited since information technology looks like Johnny and Daniel may be calling a truce in their decades-long rivalry.

Cobra Kai returns after a long wait since the jaw-dropping finale that left one major character dangerously injured and some other seemingly quitting karate altogether. Season iii will head halfway effectually the world to delve into an iconic figure's past.

Spoiler alert: The following story has spoilers for Cobra Kai seasons 1 and ii.

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Cobra Kai has been a huge striking for Netflix since it debuted on the service, earning a spot in its Peak 10 listing for several weeks straight. The serial first premiered on YouTube Red in 2018, but moved to Netflix in Baronial 2020.

The show follows erstwhile teen enemies Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) and Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) a few decades after their infamous martial arts battle in the showtime Karate Child movie. At present, they're older, though not necessarily wiser.

Subsequently Johnny helped Miguel (Xolo Maridueña) fend off some bullies, he reopened the Cobra Kai dojo. In response, Daniel vowed to shut it down. Things got more complicated when Daniel'southward daughter Samantha (Mary Mouser) began dating Miguel, and when Daniel started mentoring Johnny'southward son, Robby (Tanner Buchanan), in karate.

Everything came to a caput in the flavor 2 finale, when a huge ball among the teenagers at their schoolhouse left Miguel's time to come hanging int he balance.

Cobra Kai season 3 will take Daniel back to Okinawa, which he visited in The Karate Kid II motion-picture show. "I have been to Okinawa for some shooting of Cobra Kai flavor three, which I cannot talk too much about," Macchio revealed on Conan. "But I can say it dives into the origin of Miyagi Do Karate. We larn a trivial bit, some secrets of past history that is new to the audition, and to LaRusso, my character, and nosotros actually went to Okinawa to shoot."

Here's everything you lot demand to know about Cobra Kai season three.

Cobra Kai season 3 release date

Cobra Kai flavour iii will be released January i, 2021 on Netflix. The original Jan. 8 appointment was revealed on the official Twitter account, but then they bumped it upwardly, as seen beneath:

Cobra Kai season iii completed filming on season 3 earlier the stop of 2019, which means the show was able to avert delays due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Co-creator Josh Heald told CBR, "Thankfully with season 3, we wrapped production before the terminate of 2019 ... We were even so doing some finishing touches for the furnishings and some quality checks on flavor 3 while the quarantine aspect of the pandemic was just offset but nosotros finished our final mix – the concluding big slice of post-production — that was washed in-person with raising champagne and eating cupcakes and all the things you do to feel like you're at your absolute unhealthiest coming out of the completion of a season."

Cobra Kai season 3 trailer

Will Daniel and Johnny finally put aside their differences and telephone call a truce in their feud? Could exist! In the Cobra Kai flavour three trailer, Daniel says, "The only way to end this is by working together." Will Johnny accept his overture?

The trailer also confirms the casting rumors that the season 3 volition feature characters from Karate Child II. We meet glimpses of onetime nemesis Chozen (Yuji Okumoto) and one-time honey involvement Kumiko (Tamlyn Tomita). But no sign of Elisabeth Shue!

Previously, Netflix dropped a teaser trailer forth with its release date announcement. The clip doesn't reveal much, just it does show Miguel opening his eyes in the hospital after his terrible fall in the finale.

As Kreese says, "The story is only beginning." Season three premieres January 8, 2021 just on @Netflix. And gear up because Season 4 is officially preparation to join the fight. Cobra Kai Never Dies. pic.twitter.com/7znfWTHyuJOctober 2, 2020

And earlier that, there was some other teaser that mostly featured clips from the first 2 seasons. Merely there was 1 tantalizing sneak peek at Daniel traveling to Okinawa, the home of Mr. Miyagi!

Cobra Kai flavour 3 photos

Netflix recently released eight photos from Cobra Kai season iii. None reveal big spoilers, but we exercise spy Robby in a detention middle and onetime rivals Johnny, Daniel and John Kreese sitting uncomfortably together.

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Cobra Kai season 3 cast

Cobra Kai season three is bringing dorsum nigh of its main cast, headlined past William Zabka every bit Johnny and Ralph Macchio as Daniel LaRusso.

Likewise returning is Xolo Maridueña as Miguel Diaz. The end of season 2 left Miguel's fate in the balance, only the player confirmed on Twitter that he completed filming on the new flavour. And the latest teaser conspicuously shows Miguel'south eyes opening in the infirmary.

He'll be joined by his boyfriend younger cast members, including Tanner Buchanan as Robby Keene (Johnny'southward son) and Mary Mouser as Samantha LaRusso (Daniel'southward daughter).

Other karate kids who will probable continue kick around are Jacob Bertrand as Eli "Hawk" Moskowitz, Gianni Decenzo as Demetri, Nichole Brown as Aisha Robinson and Peyton Listing as Tory Nichols.

Also expected to return are Courtney Henggeler as Amanda LaRusso (Daniel's married woman) and Vanessa Rubio as Carmen Diaz (Miguel'south mother).

As far every bit familiar faces from the movies, Martin Kove will exist back as John Kreese, Johnny's former mentor. And the total-length trailer showed Karate Child Two bandage members Yuji Okumoto every bit Chozen and Tamlyn Tomita as Kumiko .

Plus, rumor has information technology that Elisabeth Shue will reprise her role equally Ali, the honey involvement who sparked the rivalry betwixt Daniel and Johnny back in the mean solar day.

Cobra Kai season three spoilers and plot

When Cobra Kai season 3 is released, it'll take some major cliffhangers to resolve from the season finale (which you can stream at present on Netflix).

Commencement is the health and status of Miguel, who was badly injured after a fight broke out at school. He and Robby got into it, but and then did other members of the Cobra Kai coiffure. Samantha also received some scrapes, leading her mother to requite Daniel an ultimatum to shut downwardly Miyagi-do.

The fight besides resulted in Johnny losing control over Cobra Kai, with nigh of his students pledging to follow Kreese (who secretly took over the infinite while Johnny was on his trip to San Bernardino). Despondent and guilt-ridden, Johnny threw his cell phone away at the beach — missing a Facebook friend request from his onetime high school flame, Ali.

When flavour three premieres, there may be a time jump. Zabka told Collider, "[Johnny] wasn't doing as well well at the stop of Season ii, and you know, it picks up a little bit later in fourth dimension afterward Season ii, Flavor three does, and so yous're going to run across the result of what those events would practice to someone like Johnny Lawrence."

Since we know that Maridueña filmed flavor 3, Miguel plainly survives his injuries. Whether he's recovered enough to return to karate training is the question.

As for Ali's friend request, information technology prompted speculation that Elisabeth Shue would exist the next original moving picture cast fellow member to reprise her part in the series. But there's no confirmation yet that she'll appear.

Netflix's trailers accept shown that Daniel goes to Okinawa, Mr. Miyagi's original home, which he last visited in The Karate Kid II. And information technology looks like we'll see him reencounter Chozen (Yuji Okumoto) and Kumiko (Tamlyn Tomita).

As Macchio told Conan O'Brien, Daniel will "learn a little fleck, some secrets of past history that is new to the audience, and to LaRusso."

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