Cobra Kai star Ralph Macchio has teased a “big 80s movie ending” for the Karate Kid spin-off series.
Appearing on a Sony Pictures panel (via Variety), Macchio and co-star William Zabka promised that fans of the hit Netflix series will be left satisfied when the final five episodes drop in February.
Part two of season six ended on a dark note as a competitor at the Sekai Taikai tournament died on live TV, but Macchio said that wouldn’t be the vibe for the remaining episodes.
“You need to hit the bottom to come back up, and that’s kind of where we are,” he said. “I’m very excited. It is set up to embrace that big ’80s movie ending that I have a feeling we will find and go forward. It feels right to land the plane, Cobra Kai proper… [and that] this chapter is ending.”
Echoing his co-star’s thoughts about Cobra Kai’s finale, Zabka added: “[The producers] stick the landing in a way that’s unexpected, uplifting, and honest… It’s a great ending for everybody and we’re so thankful we had six seasons to get to tell the whole story.”
Executive producer Josh Hurwitz said that the remaining episodes will deal with the fallout of the tragic incident at the tournament, whether it should continue, and if the characters even want it to.
“We have all these characters that we’ve been following for all these years and this tournament meant so much to all of them in all these different ways. And then it ends like this. So we have five episodes left to figure out, are they going to pick up the pieces? Is the tournament going to go back on? How do these characters react to what just happened?”
The final five episodes of the 15-episode final season of Cobra Kai will be available to stream on Netflix from February 13, 2025.
Elsewhere in the franchise, a new feature film, titled simply Karate Kid, is set to arrive on May 30, 2025, starring Jackie Chan alongside Macchio, as a follow-up to 2010’s The Karate Kid.