AI Will Bring Val Kilmer Back To The Screen In A New Movie
Val Kilmer will act again, five years after his death. Director Coerte Voorhees cast Kilmer as Father Fintan in Deep As The Grave before his passing, but he was too ill to film scenes. Using generative AI with family approval and SAG compensation guidelines, moviemakers were able to craft Kilmer’s performance from existing images and voice recordings.
His daughter Mercedes Kilmer approved saying her father looked at emerging technology as storytelling expansion tools. The film chronicles archaeologists Ann and Earl Morris excavating Canyon de Chelly, Arizona to trace Navajo history. Kilmer’s AI character suffers tuberculosis, mirroring his real throat cancer struggle. The cast includes Abigail Lawrie, Tom Felton, Wes Studi, and Abigail Breslin.