Of course DC’s film adaptation of The Killing Joke will be rated R

This might’ve been mildly surprising last year, when we first reported the news, but now that we live in a post-Deadpool universe where everything is going to be rated R (really looking forward to the inevitable hard-R version of Wall-E 2), it doesn’t even qualify for an eyebrow raise. But really, there’s no sane way they could’ve made The Killing Joke—even in animated form—without such a rating, as anyone who’s read Alan Moore’s brutally dark and compelling graphic novel can attest. (Meanwhile, the film version of The Dark Knight Returns fumes in the corner, pounding shots and muttering about how “thass so toy, man.”) Plus, Mark Hamill and Kevin Conroy are returning to voice the iconic villain and hero, respectively, meaning you’ll finally get to hear Luke Skywalker swear up a fucking storm.