{"id":1648791,"date":"2022-09-20T09:27:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T13:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1648791"},"modified":"2022-09-20T09:29:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T13:29:12","slug":"new-karate-kid-film-shows-folly-of-modern-hollywood-groupthink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-karate-kid-film-shows-folly-of-modern-hollywood-groupthink\/","title":{"rendered":"New \u201cKarate Kid\u201d Film Shows Folly of Modern Hollywood Groupthink"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-karate-kid-film-shows-folly-of-modern-hollywood-groupthink%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1648791&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p><strong>The team behind \u201cCobra Kai\u201d pulled off the near-impossible.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Creators Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg revived a decades-old franchise with love, respect and creativity. They paid homage to the \u201cKarate Kid\u201d features, brought back as many key, and not so key, players from the original saga and injected new blood into the storyline.<\/p>\n<p>The results? Five seasons <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/tv\/cobra_kai\/s05\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">embraced by critics and fans alike<\/a>, with more in production.<\/p>\n<p>How did Hollywood respond to the unlikely resurgence? We just learned there\u2019s a new \u201cKarate Kid\u201d movie on the way.<\/p>\n<p>Sony announced \u201cthe <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2022\/film\/news\/sony-karate-kid-movie-2024-pushes-madame-web-1235375372\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">return of the original \u2018Karate Kid\u2019 franchise\u201d<\/a> with a June 2024 release date.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s all.<\/p>\n<p>No stars or directors are currently attached to the material, at least publicly. We know nothing about the film save the title and its connection to the original franchise.<\/p>\n<p>It gets worse.<\/p>\n<p>The team behind \u201cCobra Kai,\u201d who revived the brand and proved a new \u201cKid\u201d saga still mattered, won\u2019t be involved with the new film.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The guys and I would love to make Karate Kid and Cobra Kai movies and hope to someday. But this one isn\u2019t from us or focused on the Cobra Kai cast. Don\u2019t know much about it, but wish it well. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KarateKid?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KarateKid<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CobraKai?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CobraKai<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pd2aYYAF0A\">https:\/\/t.co\/pd2aYYAF0A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jon Hurwitz (@jonhurwitz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonhurwitz\/status\/1571253320391741440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Could Hurwitz be acting coy? Seems unlikely, since he responded to a fan on Twitter and didn\u2019t approach the press directly about his possible ties to the film.<\/p>\n<p>Sony would seemingly love to trumpet the \u201cCobra Kai\u201d team\u2019s involvement with the project. What a perfect way to build interest in a film still two years away?<\/p>\n<p>Instead, we\u2019re given a generic announcement with zero details save the team who brought the brand back from the creative abyss are out of the loop.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s part of the new, baffling normal in La La Land.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/la-times-netflixs-cobra-kai-is-too-white\/\"><strong>RELATED: LA TIMES SLAMS \u2018COBRA KAI\u2019 AS TOO WHITE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hollywood studios now plot movies with the word \u201cuntitled\u201d in them for public consumption. Here\u2019s more from a<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2022\/09\/sony-kraven-the-hunter-madame-web-karate-kid-1235121120\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> recent film slate announcement.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Columbia Pictures\u2019 Garfield movie will go on May 24, 2024, Memorial Day weekend instead of Feb. 16, 2024. Currently on that Memorial Day weekend is Warner Bros\/Village Roadshow\u2019s Furiosa, Paramount\u2019s John Krasinski\/Ryan Reynolds\u2019 IF, and an <strong>untitled 20th Century Studios movie<\/strong>. [emphasis added]\n<p>Disney also uses the <a href=\"https:\/\/comicbook.com\/movies\/news\/disney-marvel-star-wars-pixar-movie-release-date-changes-2023-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cuntitled film\u201d place marker<\/a> when announcing its future plans.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s be blunt. The upcoming \u201cKarate Kid\u201d film could be as good, or bad, as any new feature. We literally know nothing about it, from the creative team in place to the finished product.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s clear, though, is that Hollywood is banking on brand recognition to green light a major motion picture. Sony is so confident about said brand that it didn\u2019t bother to tap the \u201cCobra Kai\u201d team to make it happen.<\/p>\n<p>The move suggests an arrogance behind the scenes. The folks who own the \u201cKarate Kid\u201d franchise feel no need to bring on those well versed in the saga.<\/p>\n<p>They better be right.<\/p>\n<p>Most importantly, it points to a misunderstanding of modern pop culture. \u201cCobra Kai\u201d is a hit on Netflix, but that doesn\u2019t guarantee feature film success. Hit shows draw a fraction of what they did in the analog age.<\/p>\n<p>For example, Fox\u2019s \u201cBob\u2019s Burgers\u201d starts its 13th season Sept. 25, but the film based on the long-running show made a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/title\/tt7466442\/?ref_=bo_se_r_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mediocre $31 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sony may regret turning its back on Team \u201cCobra Kai\u201d while prepping a sequel to a saga that curdled with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Next_Karate_Kid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1994\u2019s \u201cThe Next Karate Kid.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team behind \u201cCobra Kai\u201d pulled off the near-impossible. Creators Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg revived a decades-old franchise with love, respect and creativity. They paid homage to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1648795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1648791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1648791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1648795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1648791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1648791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1648791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}