Val Kilmer Comeback Sparks Debate over New Technology

Val Kilmer’s controversial AI resurrection sparks backlash as fans fume: 'It should be illegal'

Fans are debating the ethics of using AI to portray the late Val Kilmer in "As Deep as the Grave," with some calling it "sick and greedy" and others saying it may be acceptable.

VAL KILMER AI CONTROVERSY: A Year After His Death, a Digital Replica of Star in New Movie Ignites Angry Fan Reactions

A new means of expression, or a shameful exploitation?

Why Bringing Val Kilmer Back With AI Crosses A Moral Line

The following is an edited transcript excerpt from The Michael Knowles Show. * * * Val Kilmer is dead. Hollywood now wants to put him in another movie anyway. Not through footage he had already completed. Not through a role he finished before his death. Through artificial intelligence. We are told this is a tribute. It is not a tribute. It is necromancy. Yes, necromancy. And no, that is not just a melodramatic way of saying I dislike the technol…

Val Kilmer is “resurrected” by generative artificial intelligence for 'As Deep as the Grave'

Through official press release, First Line Films announced this week that his next film project, the historical drama As Deep as the Grave –formerly known as Canyon of the Dead– will have posthumous participation of the actor Val Kilmerin which you will mark a unprecedented appearance. Why do we say the above? Because unlike other projects, whose production was underway when its protagonist died, and filming had to be completed with the help of …