Even if Cobra Kai is revived, season 6 may take a while to finish. Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz, and Hayden Schlossberg are the writers of Cobra Kai. The group has continued to collaborate and has their sights set on numerous new projects in light of the show’s enormous popularity on Netflix. This includes their upcoming action-comedy Netflix series Obliterated, which will follow a special forces team on a mission in Las Vegas.
Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) and Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka), now adults with far more complicated lives than when they initially met as kids, are the protagonists of the series, which is a prequel to the original Karate Kid movies. Season 5, which just made its debut on the service on September 9, has held the top spot on the Netflix charts for two weeks in a row, even surpassing the season 2 premiere of Fate: The Winx Saga.
Heald, Hurwitz, and Schlossberg recently spoke with Deadline about their accomplishment with Cobra Kai. They discussed all of their planned projects and how they would effect the continuation of their Karate Kid series during the conversation. Hurwitz noted that they have not yet received a formal renewal for season 6, and if they do there may be a little bit more of a delay potentially.
Hurwitz said, “We’re still working all that out with Sony and Netflix, and we don’t have an official Season 6 to announce yet. What we can say is that we’re constantly thinking about these characters. We are working on Obliterated right now for Sony and Netflix. We’re in our second month of production on that, and I think it’s going to blow people’s minds. But we’re hopeful that there’s going to be more Cobra Kai on the horizon. There may be a little bit more of a wait potentially, just because we are in the midst of working on that other show, but it won’t be far behind, assuming everything goes as we’re expecting.”