The actor, who is also fluent in Mandarin ... still under wraps on the new movie, but Macchio will once again play Daniel LaRusso from the original “Karate Kid” film trilogy and the series ...

Legends on the extreme ups and downs of his long career, the secrets of a happy marriage, and the "stupid" success of Cobra ...

Jackie Chan, Ralph Macchio and young prodigy Li Fong (Ben Wang) come together in a snappy sequel that establishes a 'Karate Kid" multiverse.

Wang, apparently, also speaks Mandarin and actually studies ... Cobra Kai Season 5 is now streaming on Netflix, and the new Karate Kid is scheduled to be released on December 13, 2024.

Avildsen's 1984 sports movie "The Karate Kid" is one of the more baffling phenomenons ... agrees to show him around the city in exchange for Mandarin lessons. Ben Wang is a dazzling lead, able ...

[Laughs] But that also helped us because Ben could fluently understand the Mandarin and the ... Daniel LaRusso together, the movie establishes that the OG Karate Kid and the 2010 Karate Kid ...

Sony found its next Karate Kid after Macchio and Chan appeared together in a video announcing the studio had launched a “global casting search” in November. Wang — who is fluent in Mandarin ...

That is, will any of the younger cast members surface in the upcoming movie edition of The Karate Kid, too ... It also helped that he is fluent in Mandarin and highly skilled across many forms ...

that their Karate Kid was fluent in Mandarin and understood the Asian American experience. 'I was the target audience when that movie came out. I was exactly the age of the character,' Wang said ...

With that said, both men hail from two different parts of the Karate Kid universe, and it seems logical that we'll see other characters from their respective universes appear in this movie.