{"id":77637,"date":"2026-04-16T02:57:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/that-movie-with-ai-val-kilmer-as-a-priest-has-a-trailer-now\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T02:57:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:57:55","slug":"that-movie-with-ai-val-kilmer-as-a-priest-has-a-trailer-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/that-movie-with-ai-val-kilmer-as-a-priest-has-a-trailer-now\/","title":{"rendered":"That Movie with AI Val Kilmer as a Priest Has a Trailer Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ai-kilmer-priest-1-1280x717.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"not-prose video-container\"><noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"As Deep As The Grave  - CinemaCon 2026 Exclusive Clip &amp; Teaser\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/m1hwb-kB_7A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>At Cinema Con in Las Vegas on Wednesday, viewers were treated to a glimpse of<em>\u00a0As Deep as the Grave<\/em>, a movie that made headlines last month when its creators announced that they would be adding AI-generated images of Val Kilmer to it.<\/p>\n<p>Reportedly, Kilmer\u2019s estate, his daughter, and possibly his son all signed off on this use of his likeness.<\/p>\n<p>Kilmer really did agree to be in the movie when he was alive, and production started all the way back in 2020, but filming was delayed by Covid and other issues.<\/p>\n<p>Then Val Kilmer was taken from movie lovers too soon at the relatively young age of 65 after a prolonged, public cancer battle. It\u2019s hard to not think about that fact when AI Kilmer looks into the eyes of another character and says \u201cDon\u2019t fear the dead and don\u2019t fear me,\u201d the only line of clear, English-language dialogue spoken in the trailer.<\/p>\n<p>The movie is about Ann Axtell Morris, a real archeologist who made discoveries important to humanity\u2019s understanding of Native American history. The slogan in the tagline is \u201cSome stories were too hidden to be found.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kilmer plays a priest named Father Fintan, who is also a Native American spiritualist. In the trailer, we first see a man who appears to be in his seventies. Whether or not this man is supposed to be aged-up, AI-generated Kilmer is ambiguous. Other characters in this nighttime scene also look like AI renderings. Later images of Kilmer make him look young\u2014like<em> Top Gun<\/em> young. His voice, when he finally speaks, is a soft, slightly whispered approximation of young Kilmer\u2019s, <em>but it doesn\u2019t sound distinctly like Val Kilmer. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Kilmer\u2019s voice was as important to his movie stardom as his physicality. His speech was simultaneously soft and booming, effortlessly enunciated and audiobook-ready, but always with a note of slightly submerged mania ready to bubble up. Capturing all that with AI sounds like a big undertaking.<\/p>\n<p>Director Coerte Voorhees told the Washington Post the movie will be long, and that the AI-generated Kilmer character will be onscreen for 1 hour and 17 minutes of its runtime.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Cinema Con in Las Vegas on Wednesday, viewers were treated to a glimpse of\u00a0As Deep as the Grave, a movie that made headlines last month when its creators announced that they would be adding AI-generated images of Val Kilmer to it. 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