As Entwistle shared with the outlet, he definitely thinks Jaden Smith’s The Karate Kid character is still absolutely canon and out there somewhere in the world of Karate Kid: Legends. It seems like perhaps he wasn’t deemed necessary to the story of Ben Wang’s Li Fong and therefore is not in this new movie.

Legends introduces an all-new cast of original characters, with many of them filling the narrative roles of characters from the original.

Alright…we have to talk about Karate Kid: Legends.