Will karate kid legends be the "creed" to karate kid?

Karate kid legends is getting all this marketing and hype. What's impressive is it's managing to do this without banking on cobra kai in anyway shape or form. Macchio the original karate kid and jackie chan teaming up is getting this film more press than cobra kai's entire 6th season combined. I think cobra, kai, is more of a "spin off" where it recontextualizes the original movies rather than a sequel. That's why it doesn't have karate kid branding with it.

Karate kid legends feels like the direct sequel and continuation of the original movies. This is getting marketed as such and i think in the long run will either start a new trilogy of karate kid movies where it will be similar to creed. Anogber possibility is it's gonna be sort of like an epilogue to the entire karate kid franchise or at least close off ralph macchios run as daniel larusso.

Obviously, we know this one of the big differences between cobra kai, and this project is that Sony Pictures is much more closely involved here than they were with cobra kai.