Val Kilmer Resurrected Via AI In First Images From New Western As Deep As The Grave

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Published Mar 18, 2026, 10:30 AM EDT

Jeff Dodge (he/him), a published author and graduate of Western Washington University, has been a TV news editor for many years and has had the chance to interview multiple reality show stars, including Randy Jackson, Nick Cannon, Heidi Klum, Mel B and John Cena. Fun Fact: he’s been to every single Idol Live! Tour.

Val Kilmer may have died in 2025, but his likeness will live on in a new Western movie called As Deep as the Grave, with the help of generative AI.

Director and screenwriter Coerte Voorhees revealed that Kilmer was the "actor I wanted to play this role." Unfortunately, his throat cancer diagnosis prevented him from being able to shoot the movie after landing the role of a priest named Father Fintan, which was "very much designed around him. It drew on his Native American heritage and his ties and love of the Southwest."

Check out the image of a generative AI version of Kilmer in As Deep as the Grave below: