See, now this I don’t understand. I’m fine with the replacement of an actor who is tied to a particular franchise in order to ensure its consistent continuation, although primarily vocally, not so much visually, but I can get it. This one? Kilmer hadn’t even started recording his role. It’s a stand-alone project. There’s no reason to keep him held to it after his passing instead of hiring on someone else, no genuine expectation of anything different is being held by anybody. Unless it’s a money thing and Kilmer’s estate offered the usage for a huge discount from what paying the actual man would be, as well as the overhead of his makeup and clothing and such when weighted against the cost of digitally recreating him, unless those were reasons, I don’t see why this was the path chosen, and money isn’t an acceptable reason as-is.
I hate this. I hate all of this shit.
How incompetent does a studio have to be that they have to resort to AI tech rather than just casting a suitable actor for the role?
It has to be about money. Either they determined that they’ll ultimately save just but DeepFaking him, or they think people will flock to the film as their “last chance” to see Kilmer. Anyone incompetent enough to not realize that they could just cast someone else and nobody would know or care because it’s a standalone project that nobody has ties to and the world has accepted and moved on from Kilmer’s death, that’s someone probably not smart enough to greenlight a film to begin with.
I imagine this is a pitch to get AI more established in Hollywood to counter these worker protests against AI usage in movies.
How that backfires massively.
It looks like he signed onto the project in 2020 which is 5 years before he passed away. I was super hoping he filmed even just one scene. I would have been less mad, BUT NOPE! He never filmed anything at all.
Crazy
I don’t care if the family and Val himself agreed to such. This is just an awful idea all around. His last role being Top Gun Maverick was enough. He had a send off there that felt from the heart, even if he didn’t die until after the film released.
Exactly. In fact, I heard a 4rd Top Gun was approved. If they brought him back in that, then it would at least make sense.
I think I am going to call him Stampy.
Well damn. This is actually a kill method that I’ve wanted to see in a Hitman game. I wonder…
He’s alright. He wasn’t even in danger. 
And I wouldn’t be surprised if it was yet another setup, this time so that nobody would stick around to make fun of him. If it was real, then at this point I’m starting to think that he just keeps on existing despite all the things that should have made him keel over by now is because even the Grim Reaper doesn’t want to spend five minutes with the fucker, escorting him down to hell.
Not knowing when to quit is a virtue… if you’re Captain America. This, I can’t tell if it’s more corrupt or pathetic.