Bryan Reesman, Guest Columnist

A Fake Val Kilmer Tests What Movie Lovers Will Tolerate

Val Kilmer. The real one.

Photographer: Andy Kropa/Getty Images North America

Coming soon to a theater near you: your favorite deceased celebrity ______, who died in ______, has been resurrected via artificial intelligence to star in a forthcoming film entitled ______.

It’s an odd fill-in-the-blank scenario we may begin hearing more often. This month, the conversation is about Val Kilmer. He passed away in April and will be AI-generated to star in, eerily enough, an indie movie called As Deep as the Grave.