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.

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

Legendsfeatures all the hallmarks of the Karate Kid franchise: a kid who's moved to a new city and struggles to fit in, develops a crush on a local girl (and a rivalry with a borderline psychopath who knows karate),