The Killing Joke: New Animated film may be Rated R

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    Hot off CBR's exclusive confirmation that Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill are reprising their roles as Batman and The Joker in Warner Bros. Animation's "The Killing Joke" adaptation, Hamill has unveiled a still from the animated movie, giving us our first official look at the project.

    Hamill tweeted out the following image from the direct-to-video film, with the caption -- lifted from Alan Moore's original script -- THE "All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy...Just one bad day."

    THE "All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy...Just one bad day." pic.twitter.com/bqzBQPIhOw

    Along with Conroy and Hamill, "Batman: The Killing Joke" stars Tara Strong -- also reprising her role from "Batman: The Animated Series" -- as Barbara Gordon and Ray Wise ("Twin Peaks," "Agent Carter") as Commissioner Gordon.

    Ahead of the film's summer release, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will host the world premiere this summer at Comic-Con International in San Diego.
     
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    Origins of The Killing Joke

    The Killing Joke is the classic graphic novel by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland that explored the relationship between Batman and Joker while also giving a possible origin for the Joker…

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    It was a major hit and won the Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album.

    Here’s the weird thing about the project, though. It’s only 48 pages long. That’s pretty darn short for a graphic novel.

    That is almost certainly the reason that there is a legend out there about the book that it originally started as a Batman Annual before being transitioned to a graphic novel, likely because of the content. “It was originally a Batman Annual” shows up in droves when you search for it on the net. Here are some samples:

    “It started as a Batman annual story and ended up as a prestige-format book.”

    “was originally a Batman annual story and ended up a prestige-format book.”

    “Originally designed to be a Batman Annual, The Killing Joke has become one of Batman’s most cherished tomes”

    “The story (intended as a Batman annual, released as a standalone graphic novel) ends with Batman catching The Joker. ”

    However, both Bolland and Moore deny it. The origin of the project came when Bolland finished with Camelot 3000. DC chief editor Dick Giordano let Bolland pick his next project and he said he wanted to do a graphic novel about Batman and the Joker with Alan Moore. Giordano agreed (as why would he not?) and the project took four years before it came out.

    So if Bolland says it was never an Annual (which he days in the intro of The DC Universe Stories of Alan Moore) and Alan Moore says it was never an annual (which did in an interview with the great George Khoury in Khoury’s The Extraordinary Works of Alan Moore) then I am willing to say that it was never an Annual. It was just a really short graphic novel. I would imagine it would have something to do with Bolland’s speed (or lack thereof).

    Moore, by the way, mocked the idea of calling it a graphic novel for that very reason. As he noted, “It wasn’t even as long as an 80-Page Giant!”

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    DC Animated Films are notoriously underrated, Kevin Conrey and Mark Hamill ARE Batman and Joker! Really glad to see them still creating great work!
     
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    A story I both hate and love equally.
    I wonder if it'll get the same theorized ending as the original story?
     
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