TV series 'Cobra Kai' picks up story of 'The Karate Kid' 30 years later

Cobra Kai picks up the story 30 years later, with Danny (Ralph Macchio, right) now a successful business owner and family man. Photo: Handout

Hollywood is littered with the corpses of failed reboots.

But Cobra Kai, the acclaimed television spin-off of The Karate Kid movies (1984 to 1994), is often held up as an exemplary revival of a hit franchise, which it reinvented by stepping into the shoes of one of the original villains - and questioning whether the hero was all that heroic.