Overview
- Director Adam Marcus publicly called the late Val Kilmer "the worst human being I've ever known" in a Threads post that has since been deleted.
- Marcus said Kilmer's behavior on the 2008 set of Conspiracy included verbal abuse and conduct he says would be unacceptable today, and he argued the usual rule against speaking ill of the dead did not apply.
- Multiple outlets reported Marcus's comments based on an Entertainment Weekly account, and there has been no widely reported substantive response from Kilmer's estate or family.
- The criticism comes as filmmakers of the 2026 film As Deep as the Grave say they used AI and archival material to recreate Kilmer's likeness with permission from his children, raising questions about consent and legacy.
- The episode fits a pattern of past complaints from collaborators and Kilmer's own later admission that he sometimes "behaved poorly," a history that now shapes how the public and industry weigh posthumous reputation and digital resurrections.