“Karate Kid: Legends”: See Jackie Chan and Ralph Macchio Team Up with a New Kung Fu Prodigy in Gripping Trailer

The Karate Kid legacy lives on.

Ralph Macchio and Jackie Chan join forces in the action-packed first trailer for Karate Kid: Legends, which comes more than 40 years after the original 1984 movie starring Macchio, now 63.

The cast of the film also includes Ben Wang, Joshua Jackson, Sadie Stanley and Ming-Na Wen.

"After a family tragedy, kung fu prodigy Li Fong (Wang, 24) is uprooted from his home in Beijing and forced to move to New York City with his mother," reads an official synopsis. "Li struggles to let go of his past as he tries to fit in with his new classmates, and although he doesn't want to fight, trouble seems to find him everywhere."

"When a new friend needs his help, Li enters a karate competition — but his skills alone aren't enough," the synopsis adds. "Li's kung fu teacher Mr. Han (Chan, 70) enlists original Karate Kid Daniel LaRusso (Macchio) for help, and Li learns a new way to fight, merging their two styles into one for the ultimate martial arts showdown."

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Karate Kid was first announced in September 2022 and a year later, it was announced that Macchio and Chan would be reprising their franchise roles as Daniel LaRusso and Mr. Han, respectively.

In the original Karate Kid films, Daniel is a bullied high-school student whose life changes when he's taught self-defense skills and life lessons by wise karate sensei Mr. Miyagi (the late Pat Morita). He applies what he learns to protect himself and beat opponents who challenge him in competition.

Macchio returned as Daniel in the TV series Cobra Kai, where his rivalry with longtime opponent Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) is reignited 35 years later. In 2021, Macchio earned an Emmy nomination for outstanding comedy series as one of the show's executive producers.

Meanwhile, Chan starred opposite Jaden Smith in 2010's The Karate Kid, where he played Mr. Han, a kung fu master and mentor to Smith's character, Dre Parker.

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Karate Kid: Legends is directed by Jonathan Entwistle, best known for his work on the Netflix series The End of the F***ing World. The screenplay was written by Rob Lieber, with Karen Rosenfelt producing.

The film will arrive in theaters after the final installment of Netflix's Cobra Kai. And as Macchio told PEOPLE in July, he filmed the two projects back-to-back.

"I went straight from Cobra Kai — basically the wrap party, saying goodbye to everyone for the moment — to Montreal and jumped in and shot a couple of weeks straight," he said. "It's exciting."

Macchio was shy about sharing any specific details about the plot of the film, but added, "To me, this was just about carrying the honesty and truth of Daniel LaRusso and what Miyagi, his mentor, meant to him, and paying it forward."

Karate Kid: Legends is in theaters May 30, 2025.

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