Cobra Kai – Image: Sony Leisure
It’s official, Cobra Kai is heading to Netflix and shall be premiering completely season Three and there’s additionally doubtless going to be season four and hints that we might get different iterations of Karate Child too. Right here’s what we all know up to now.
For these unaware, Cobra Kai is the spin-off to Karate Child Sony collection that premiered its first two seasons on YouTube Premium. The collection is a part of the YouTube Originals lineup that has been slowly winding down as of late as YouTube pivots what it needs YouTube Premium to be.
We first obtained wind {that a} new home could be in store for Cobra Kai in direction of the tip of Could 2020. A report from Deadline additional confirmed that Cobra Kai was being shopped with the respective streamer needing to vow to launch the third and probably fourth season sooner or later.
An additional trace (however likely unconnected) was that Netflix UK just recently got a lot of the Karate Child films added to Netflix from the Sony film library.
Now, as of June 22nd, 2020 Netflix is ready to get seasons 1 by Three with season Three skipping launch on YouTube Premium more likely to carry the complete Netflix Unique branding.
In a press launch, Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz, and Hayden Schlossberg expressed their gratitude find a brand new international streaming house saying:
“Making Cobra Kai has been a dream come true for us since day one. We’re grateful for the tireless dedication of Jeff Frost, Chris Parnell, Jason Clodfelter, Karen Tatevosian, and all our companions at Sony for locating us a brand new house the place we cannot solely proceed the collection, but in addition discover alternatives to additional develop The Karate Child universe, we’re past excited to affix our new companions at Netflix and stay up for the present reaching the large international viewers who loves this franchise as a lot as we do.”
We’ll have a full season Three preview up in the end however within the meantime, early previews (some as early as July 2019) highlighted the promise of the brand new season.
Seasons 1 and a couple of shall be on Netflix later in 2020 (date unspecified in the mean time) and season Three will comply with thereafter.