Val Kilmer was named ‘the worst person’ by the director 1 year after the actor’s death
Adam Marcus said Val Kilmer was “the worst person ever” more than a year after the actor died of pneumonia.
The director, who worked with the late “Batman Forever” star on the 2008 thriller “Conspiracy,” took to Threads over the weekend in a since-deleted post to call out Kilmer.
“#MicroIntellectMonday to that time I directed that guy. The guy who played Iceman and Doc Holiday [sic]. You know that one,” he wrote alongside a photo of himself and Kilmer, in Entertainment Weekly.
“Here I am with the Putz working on the set of ‘Conspiracy,'” Marcus, 58, added.
The filmmaker then addressed fans who were upset by his negative comments about the late “Top Gun” star.
“And for any of you who rolled your eyes because ‘don’t talk bad about dead bulls–t’, f–k that,” he reportedly wrote and later deleted.
Marcus added that if Kilmer had “done one-tenth of what he did on my set today, he would have been canceled in an instant.”
“The worst person I’ve ever known… and that’s saying something,” he concluded.
Kilmer played William “Spooky” MacPherson, a disabled Marine special operator who was injured during combat in Iraq, in Marcus’s film.
When MacPherson visited a friend in the Southwest of the United States, he discovered that his friend had disappeared, and no one would admit that the person had ever lived there.
Kilmer has previously been labeled as difficult to work with in movies.
In a 1996 interview with “Entertainment Weekly,” “Batman Forever” director Joel Schumacher said Kilmer was “childish and impossible” and “mentally disturbed.”
The director of “Island of Dr. Moreau”, John Frankenheimer, vowed never to work with Kilmer again after the 1996 horror film.
In a 2021 documentary about Kilmer’s life, the “Heat” actor responded to claims about his behavior.
“I didn’t behave well. I behaved bravely. I behaved in a way that was strange to others,” he said. “I don’t deny this and I don’t regret it because I lost and found parts of myself that I didn’t know existed. And I’m blessed.”
Kilmer died at his home in Los Angeles in April 2025 of pneumonia. He was 65 years old.
The “Tombstone” star was reportedly bedridden for years before his death, due to a lack of energy in his cancer treatment.
