During last year’s San Diego Comic-Con, Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment announced that they’d given the go-ahead to the long-awaited animated adaptation of Alan Moore’s classic Batman: The Killing Joke, with DC animation legend Bruce Timm (Batman: The Animated Series) serving as executive producer.
Speaking to Comic Book, Timm has now given an update on the project, announcing that it will premiere at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con in July, and revealing that they have had to add in additional story to make it a full-length feature:
“The one big difference about it, as opposed to those other projects (Batman: The Dark Knight Returns), is The Killing Joke… the source material is really not long enough to make an entire feature film out of. So we actually had to add a lot more story to it. Which is tricky. But I think we came up with a really good solution on how that worked.”
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL18yMRIfoszEaHYNDTy5C-cH9Oa2gN5ng&v=vDx6g5ua25E
Originally published January 11, 2016. Updated April 15, 2018.
