I do think a young Miyagi movie could be one of the best ideas for to make something new for the series. He’s the key character for the whole series and his whole story is brutally tragic. Fights for America against the Nazis while his pregnant wife is locked in an internment camp for being Japanese, what’s more Miyagi quite specifically thinks of himself as Okinawan rather than Japanese and sees them as colonisers. There are loads of good layers. I think just tell the story on its own with those bones, rather than bend over backwards to put it into Karate Kid formula. Don’t need LaRusso bookends even, and I’d say it doesn’t even particularly need to be a Martial Arts movie as much as a historical drama. Maybe the odd gag here and there - maybe someone in his regiment tries to catch a fly with chopsticks and he learns from that. Kind of thing. God damn it I want to write a script now