The Guys Behind Cobra Kai Want To Make A Duke Nukem Movie
Every now and then you run across a Hollywood news item so strange, all you can think is, “Well, good luck with that, you’re gonna need it.” This one definitely falls under that category. Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz, and Hayden Schlossberg, creators of the hit series Cobra Kai, are interested in making a movie. No, not a Cobra Kai movie (it already has a movie, it’s called The Karate Kid). They just licensed the rights to Duke Nukem, the beefy hyper-masculine star of a series of PC FPS games in the 90s. Duke could not be more out of place for the 2020s. The whole point of him was to offend the easily offended. He’s unapologetically crass and violent and you better believe he thinks of women as objects. He also steals all his lines from movies (according to this, Bruce Campbell considered suing, but decided not to). We’re not sure what the Cobra Kai guys are thinking here. But we could mine Cobra Kai itself for clues. The series
