Animated The Killing Joke trailer gets redrawn to be closer to original comic

Enter Emil Gustafsson Ryderup, who has redrawn the trailer so it’s closer to the look of Bolland’s original art. The trailer for the solo animated movie captures the grim sense of foreboding in the comic, but without the manic colors of Bolland’s original artwork, it loses some of that creepy funhouse feel that injected it with such pop vitality. Here’s Ryderup’s version, complete with yellow hues and intensified colors on all of the scenes:

It’s an impressive bit of work to transform the dark, gray tones of the Warner Bros. animation version with this newly lit sampling. The new coloring and appearances of characters make everything seem more alive, a bit off-kilter, and almost as manic as the evil madman at the heart of the story. Here’s a video comparing the two versions, along with the comic book panels from which Ryderup drew inspiration: