“This is actually the third time that The Killing Joke came up for production.
Batman: The Killing Joke will be released on DVD and Blu-ray in the U.S. on August 2nd, 2016.
We’ll find out soon enough if now is, in fact, The Killing Joke‘s time at last though.
So it appears the likes of director Zack Snyder’s Watchmen (itself, based on a famous Alan Moore graphic novel) had a significant impact on the development history behind the Killing Joke animated movie adaptation.