{"id":2442018,"date":"2026-06-02T18:41:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2442018"},"modified":"2026-06-02T18:41:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:41:33","slug":"val-kilmer-slammed-by-conspiracy-movie-director-adam-marcus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/val-kilmer-slammed-by-conspiracy-movie-director-adam-marcus-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Val Kilmer slammed by &#8216;Conspiracy&#8217; movie director Adam Marcus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<hr class=\"colorbar section-entertainment\"\/>\n<h2 class=\"display-5 subhead spacer-small\">Adam Marcus slams Val Kilmer&#8217;s behavior while filming the 2008 direct-to-DVD movie &#8220;Conspiracy,&#8221; calling the late actor the &#8220;worst human being I&#8217;ve ever known.&#8221;<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"videoWrap\" class=\"spacer-large videoWrap\" style=\"position:relative\">\n<div id=\"uwVideoPlaceholder\" slot=\"placeholder\" style=\"z-index:19;width:100%;padding-bottom:56.25%;position:relative\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/videos\/videoelephant\/thumbnails\/89235535007.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"vidplaybtn\" style=\"display:-moz-box;display:-ms-flexbox;display:-webkit-flex;display:flex;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,.4);border:2px solid #fff;border-radius:80px;cursor:pointer;height:80px;width:80px;position:absolute;top:50%;left:50%;transform:translate(-50%,-50%);z-index:10\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div slot=\"videoDetails\" id=\"videoDetails\" class=\"videoDetails\" style=\"padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:8px\">\n<div id=\"videoDetailsContainer\" class=\"videoDetailsContainer\" hidden=\"\">\n<p>Val Kilmer to posthumously star in &#8220;As Deep as the Grave&#8221; through AI<\/p>\n<p>A year after Val Kilmer&#8217;s death, the actor is set to posthumously star in film &#8220;As Deep as the Grave&#8221; through a generative AI digital replica.<\/p>\n<p>Cheddar<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>One director is looking not-so-fondly back on his time working with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/movies\/2026\/04\/16\/val-kilmer-ai-movie-as-deep-as-the-grave\/89642979007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Val Kilmer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0546057\/?ref_=fn_t_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Adam Marcus<\/a>, a director and writer best known for his work on horror films, apparently suggested in a now-deleted Threads post that the late actor behaved badly on set of his 2008 thriller &#8220;Conspiracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;#MicroIntellectMonday to that time when I directed that guy. The guy who played Iceman and Doc Holiday [sic],&#8221; Marcus wrote on Sunday, May 31, alongside a photo of the director and actor together, according to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/val-kilmer-conspiracy-director-says-actor-was-the-worst-human-being-ive-ever-known-11988231\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Entertainment Weekly<\/a>. &#8220;You know the one. Here&#8217;s me and the Putz working it out on the set of Conspiracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Marcus also preemptively addressed any backlash about speaking &#8220;ill of the dead,&#8221; adding that if Kilmer &#8220;did one-tenth of what he did on my set today, he would have been cancelled in a blink.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Jason Goes to Hell&#8221; director continued, per the outlet, &#8220;Worst human being I&#8217;ve ever known\u2026 and that is really saying something.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\"><span class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\"><strong style=\"margin-right:3px\">See first look at Val Kilmer&#8217;s <\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/movies\/2026\/04\/16\/val-kilmer-ai-movie-as-deep-as-the-grave\/89642979007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">posthumous, AI-generated film role<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The posts no longer appear to be on his <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.com\/@adammarcus13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Threads page<\/a>. USA TODAY has reached out to Marcus for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Kilmer starred as disabled special ops veteran William &#8220;Spooky&#8221; MacPherson in the critically panned direct-to-DVD film, opposite Jennifer Esposito and Gary Cole. The film has a 19% Popcornmeter rating on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/conspiracy\/reviews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>, while Richard Roeper, on Ebert &amp; Roeper, called it &#8220;beyond dreadful&#8221; and &#8220;jaw-droppingly bad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\"><span class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\"><strong style=\"margin-right:3px\">Val Kilmer&#8217;s co-stars Jim Carrey, <\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2025\/04\/02\/val-kilmer-death-celebrity-tributes\/82770614007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Robert De Niro remember actor as a &#8216;generational talent&#8217;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Six years after the film&#8217;s release, Kilmer was diagnosed with throat cancer. He later recovered. The actor had battled the disease publicly for much of the past decade, permanently losing his voice to a tracheotomy, but continuing to act and write.<\/p>\n<p>Kilmer <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/movies\/2025\/04\/02\/val-kilmer-dies-top-gun-batman-forever\/82769776007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">died in April 2025<\/a>\u00a0from pneumonia at age 65.<\/p>\n<p>Contributing: Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usatoday.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Marcus slams Val Kilmer&#8217;s behavior while filming the 2008 direct-to-DVD movie &#8220;Conspiracy,&#8221; calling the late actor the &#8220;worst human being I&#8217;ve ever known.&#8221; Val Kilmer to posthumously star in &#8220;As Deep as the Grave&#8221; through AI A year after Val Kilmer&#8217;s death, the actor is set to posthumously star in film &#8220;As Deep as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2442019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[39915,22220,21751,239390,376933,6297,21741,427051,22240,239389,21739,298114,22020,241909,21912,74947,21738,376934,30600,239343,239420,147314,354059,39031,239344,363793,336217],"class_list":["post-2442018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-affiliate","tag-arts","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrities-u0026-entertainment-news","tag-de","tag-eamotion","tag-entertainment","tag-kilmer","tag-life","tag-life-now","tag-local","tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","tag-movie","tag-movie-reference","tag-movies","tag-negative","tag-news","tag-niro","tag-now","tag-overall","tag-overall-negative","tag-reference","tag-robert","tag-robert-de-niro","tag-u0026","tag-val","tag-val-kilmer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Val-Kilmer-slammed-by-Conspiracy-movie-director-Adam-Marcus.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2442021,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442018\/revisions\/2442021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2442019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}