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REINVENTING A MARTIAL LEGACY
The New Indian Express Hyderabad
|May 28, 2025
Legends director Jonathan Entwistle on his upcoming film Karate Kid: Legends, getting into the theatrical zone, zeroing in on a new kid and learning from Jackie Chan
Karate Kid: Legends feels like a reverse kick in time. It offers a double-dose of nostalgia as Jackie Chan's Mr. Han from the 2010 reboot joins forces with the OG Karate Kid (Ralph Macchio as Daniel LaRusso) to train Ben Wang's Li Fong, the new kid on the block. It's also two martial art forms coming together: Mr. Han's Kung Fu and 'Danny Boy's' Karate, but Miyagi style. Karate Kid is a wide-spanning franchise. There are the 80s original films: The Karate Kid (1984), Part II (1986) and Part III (1989), followed by a deviation (The Next Karate Kid, 1994), the aforementioned reboot starring Jaden Smith, and the spin-off series Cobra Kai (2018-25).
For the new installment, the directorial reins have been taken over by Jonathan Entwistle, the brain behind coming-of-age black comedy series like The End of the F***ing World (2017-19) and
This story is from the May 28, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Hyderabad.
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