{"id":197291,"date":"2026-03-19T07:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T11:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/ai-generated-val-kilmer-to-star-in-new-movie-a-year-after-actors-death-ents-arts-news\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T07:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T11:50:13","slug":"ai-generated-val-kilmer-to-star-in-new-movie-a-year-after-actors-death-ents-arts-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/ai-generated-val-kilmer-to-star-in-new-movie-a-year-after-actors-death-ents-arts-news\/","title":{"rendered":"AI-generated Val Kilmer to star in new movie a year after actors&#8217; death | Ents &#038; Arts News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/ai-generated-val-kilmer-to-star-in-new-movie-a-year-after-actors-death-13521693\">AI-generated Val Kilmer to star in new movie a year after actors&#8217; death | Ents &#038; Arts News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/ai-generated-val-kilmer-to-star-in-new-movie-a-year-after-actors-death-13521693\">https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/ai-generated-val-kilmer-to-star-in-new-movie-a-year-after-actors-death-13521693<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-19 07:31:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"news.sky.com\">news.sky.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Val Kilmer will posthumously star in &#8220;As Deep As the Grave,&#8221; an action-adventure film, a year after his death from pneumonia.<\/li>\n<li>First Line Films used generative artificial intelligence (AI) to complete Kilmer&#8217;s role as a Native American spiritualist Catholic priest, Father Fintan.<\/li>\n<li>Kilmer was unable to film due to illness but had previously expressed a spiritual connection to the character.<\/li>\n<li>The filmmakers worked closely with Kilmer\u2019s daughter, Mercedes, and his estate to ensure the character was portrayed authentically.<\/li>\n<li>The AI technology utilized is described as &#8220;state-of-the-art&#8221; but the specifics have not been revealed by the production company.<\/li>\n<li>The film follows the archaeological excavations of Ann Morris and explores the traditions of the Navajo people in the Canyon de Chelly area.<\/li>\n<li>This project follows Kilmer&#8217;s use of similar AI technology in &#8220;Top Gun: Maverick,&#8221; where his damaged voice was reconstructed for a new performance.<\/li>\n<li>The film industry has been grappling with the implications of advancing AI, as seen with the recent debate around the use of AI-generated actors and other AI-related challenges.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI-generated Val Kilmer to star in new movie a year after actors&#8217; death | Ents&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":197292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/25\/04\/1600x900\/skynews-val-kilmer-actor_6873507.jpg?20250402050152","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-197291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197293,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197291\/revisions\/197293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}