Val Kilmer dubbed ‘worst human being’ by director 1 year after actor’s passing: I’ll ‘speak ill of the dead’

Adam Marcus claimed Val Kilmer was nan “worst quality being” much than a twelvemonth aft nan character died from pneumonia.

The director, who worked pinch nan precocious “Batman Forever” prima successful nan 2008 action thriller “Conspiracy,” took to Threads complete nan play successful a now-deleted station to telephone retired Kilmer.

“#MicroIntellectMonday to that clip erstwhile I directed that guy. The feline who played Iceman and Doc Holiday [sic]. You cognize nan one,” he wrote alongside a photograph of himself and Kilmer, per Entertainment Weekly.

“Here’s maine and nan Putz moving it retired connected nan group of ‘Conspiracy,'” Marcus, 58, added.

The filmmaker past addressed fans who were upset astatine his antagonistic comments astir nan precocious “Top Gun” star.

“And to immoderate of you rolling your eyes because of nan full ‘don’t speak sick of nan dormant bulls–t’, f–k that,” he reportedly wrote and later deleted.

Marcus added that if Kilmer “did one-tenth of what he did connected my group today, he would person been cancelled successful a blink.”

“Worst quality being I’ve ever known… and that is really saying something,” he concluded.

Kilmer played William “Spooky” MacPherson, a abnormal typical operations Marine wounded during combat operations in Iraq, successful Marcus’ film.

When MacPherson visited a friend successful the Southwestern United States, he discovered that his pal had disappeared, and nary 1 would admit that nan personification ever lived there.

Kilmer was antecedently branded arsenic difficult to activity pinch successful movies.

In a 1996 question and reply pinch “Entertainment Weekly,” “Batman Forever” director Joel Schumacher said Kilmer was “childish and impossible” and a “psychologically disturbed quality being.”

The “Island of Dr. Moreau” head John Frankenheimer vowed ne'er to activity pinch Kilmer again aft nan 1996 scary film.

In a 2021 documentary astir Kilmer’s life, nan “Heat” actor addressed nan claims astir his on-set behavior.

“I person behaved poorly. I person behaved bravely. I person behaved bizarrely to some,” he said. “I contradict nary of this and person nary regrets because I person mislaid and recovered parts of myself that I ne'er knew existed. And I americium blessed.”

Kilmer died astatine his location successful Los Angeles successful April 2025 from pneumonia. He was 65.

The “Tombstone” prima was reportedly bedridden years earlier his passing, owed to a deficiency of power from his past crab treatment.