The architects of Cobra Kai have considered bringing back Hilary Swank’s Julie Pierce character, making a future impression from Swank a distinct possibility. Swank starred in 1994 ’s The Next Karate Kid alongside Pat Morita’s Mr. Miyagi. The cinema did not feature any ties to the story of Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence, but Morita’s role still gives it firmly in the Cobra Kai canon.

Part of what’s manufactured Cobra Kai such a make since its move to Netflix is the number of past Karate Kid performers who’ve returned to reprise their aged personas. Ralph Macchio and William Zabka lead the cast as Larusso and Lawrence, but other attributes like John Kreese( Martin Kove ), Daniel’s mom Lucille( Randee Heller ), and other students of the original Cobra Kai dojo all make appearances as well. Season 2 will bring back key digits from The Karate Kid Part IIas well, including Kumiko( Tamlyn Tumita) and Chozen Toguchi( Yuji Okumoto ). With so many familiar faces having surpassed through Cobra Kai already, it seems like any past Karate Kid character could make a return.

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One of the most obvious possible reprisals would be Hilary Swank’s Julie Pierce. Fan have hoped for Pierce’s onscreen return for some time, and the show’s developers have apparently considered it extensively themselves. “In our writers’ room we speak about literally every person that has appeared in the Miyagi-verse, ” Cobra Kai co-creator Jon Hurwitz said in a recent interrogation with CinemaBlend. “So it’s obvious that we’ve spoken about Julie Pierce. As to whether or not she’ll return to the series, that’s something you’ll merely have to wait to find out.” Hurwitz emphasized that anything within Morita’s Karate Kid movies could be fair game for a Cobra Kai comeback, and that the Mr. Miyagi reputation has always been at the heart of the story.

“We ever say that our register makes place in the Miyagi-verse…in our brains, any narrative in which Mr. Miyagi was a character, with Pat Morita playing Mr. Miyagi I “re saying”, is canon to our world. The Next Karate Kid is a part of our macrocosm. We believe that the events of that movie happened…In calls of that movie, it has its pluses and minuses. One of the things that’s really special about it is it’s very early work for Hilary Swank and she’s gone on to be one of the great actors in Hollywood. Her performance is great in that movie and her chemistry with Pat Morita is fantastic.”

As Daniel expands his Miyagi-Do karate dojo, it makes a lot of sense for Julie to show back up. Season 3 will have Daniel travel to Okinawa and presumably uncover some new information about his old sensei’s past. As Miyagi’s history becomes more central to the show’s active planned, a return from Swank’s The Next Karate Kid character seems more and more likely as well. She could offer a nice personality symmetry to the Daniel/ Johnny dynamic and feed some interesting new elements for the future of the show, which has already been refurbished by Netflix for a fourth season.

As more Cobra Kai comings, Julie isn’t the only familiar face that is able to make a startle return. The original film’s Ali Mills( Elisabeth Shue) has been referenced innumerable days, including at the very end of season two. Cobra Kai will return to Netflix in January, and the forthcoming seasons will likely obstruct reeling with more resurgences and nostalgia excursions for fans.

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Source: CinemaBlend

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