Val Kilmer’s likeness is being used in a new movie with the permission of his family and estate.
Kilmer — known for his roles in “Top Gun,” “Tombstone” and “Batman Forever” — died of pneumonia last April at age 65. “As Deep as the Grave,” previously titled “Canyon of the Dead,” stars the late actor as Father Fintan, a Catholic priest and Native American spiritualist, according to IMDb.
The movie, which also stars Abigail Lawrie, Tom Felton and Abigail Breslin, is based on the true story of Ann and Earl Morris, early 20th-century archaeologists who helped excavate and document evidence of the Ancestral Puebloans in the American Southwest.
In a news release from First Line Films, the New Mexico based production company behind the project, director Coerte Voorhees said that he cast Kilmer, who has Native American heritage, years before his death. Rather than recast him, Voorhees decided to try to digitally
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