7-Minute Clip Revives Val Kilmer in 3-Hour Posthumous Film
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Updated · Yahoo! Voices · Aug 19
7-Minute Clip Revives Val Kilmer in 3-Hour Posthumous Film
3 articles · Updated · Yahoo! Voices · Aug 19
Summary
A seven-minute clip released Wednesday shows an AI-generated Val Kilmer as a Catholic priest in As Deep as the Grave, marking the first footage of the late actor in the posthumous film.
Kilmer appears in about a third of the three-hour movie after production turned to AI to complete a role he had accepted before delays from the pandemic and his throat cancer.
The film used family-archive images, later footage and pre-tracheotomy voice recordings, with writer-director Coerte Voorhees saying Kilmer had strongly backed the project before his 2025 death at 65.
Kilmer's estate approved the use of his likeness and was compensated under SAG guidelines, while daughter Mercedes Kilmer said the actor saw AI as a way to expand storytelling despite wider industry concerns.
As Deep as the Grave, co-starring Tom Felton, Wes Studi, Abigail Lawrie and Abigail Breslin, has not announced a release date.