Cobra Kai Sets Filming Start Date for Final Season

Fans of Netflix‘s martial arts dramedy Cobra Kai have had a long wait for its sixth and final season, but according to one of the series stars, production is soon to begin.

In an interview with Screen Rant, actor Courtney Henggeler was asked if there was anything she could reveal about the next season. “I wish I knew,” she said. “I just got the script for the — we’re doing the last season, starting in January, and I just got the first script so I’ll find out soon.”

Cobra Kai expands the Miyagi-verse and creates a superhero

Henggeler, who plays Amanda Russo in Cobra Kai, is part of an ensemble cast which builds on the leads of the 1984 movie The Karate Kid and its sequels. William Zabka and Ralph Macchio reprise their roles as Johnny Lawrence and Daniel Russo, teenage rivals who rediscover their love for karate and come together to mentor the next generation. Cobra Kai began in 2018 as a YouTube Red series and was picked up by Netflix for its third season. Together with The Karate Kid film series, the show is set in the “Miyagi-verse,” which will continue to grow — with spin-off movies now in the works.

The younger cast includes Xolo Maridueña, who has played Miguel Diaz since Season 1 of Cobra Kai and has since entered the superhero genre as the star of DC’s Blue Beetle in the summer of 2023. Maridueña credited Zabka and Macchio for setting an example as he advanced in his career, saying that his older co-stars “displayed what it means to be number one on the call sheet, with the way they carried themselves and the way they interacted with everyone. Not only the cast, but the crew, too; they made everyone feel like they belonged. I was affected by it, and it made me confident in being an actor and as a kid who was a little nervous as to what this world was like.”

The first five seasons of Cobra Kai are streaming on Netflix. Season 6 does not yet have a release window announced.