Val Kilmer called 'worst human being' by director in blunt confession a year after actor's death
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Val Kilmer’s ‘Conspiracy’ director has called out the late actor, a year after his death.
Adam Marcus made the statement on Facebook and revealed that the late actor was “verbally abusive” and “physically violent.”
Adam Marcus calls out late Val Kilmer
Sharing the photo of himself with Kilmer on the social media page, he wrote, “#MicroIntellectMonday to that time when I directed that guy. The guy who played Iceman and Doc Holiday. You know the one. Here’s me and the Putz working it out on the set of Conspiracy. So yeah, that happened.”
He then went on to slam those preaching ‘don’t speak ill of the dead’ as he noted that Kilmer was “physically violent, was verbally abusive, on ‘something’ almost every day, 3-6 hours late to set on almost every day.”
Director accuses Val Kilmer of being 'very unprofessional'
Marcus also accused the ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ star of being “alcohol poisoned on the first day of production” and disclosed that he had to call the ambulance on set “to give him an IV before we could get one shot done.”
The director also shared in his lengthy post that he paid Kilmer 1.5 million but he was very unprofessional.
“And this is truly the tip of the iceberg of bad behavior. If this guy did one-tenth of what he did on my set today, he would have been cancelled in a blink. Worst human being I’ve ever known… and that is really saying something,” Marcus asserted.
Val Kilmer was called 'psychologically disturbed’ by Joel Schumacher
Kilmer was 65 when he died because of pneumonia in April 2025.
Meanwhile this was not the first time a director said negative things about him. Decades ago, Joel Schumacher, who cast him in 1995’s ‘Batman Forever’, dubbed him “childish and impossible”.
He also called him a “psychologically disturbed human being”.
Val Kilmer hit back at Schumacher, called him 'not a great director'
‘The Doors’ actor had responded to Schumacher’s allegations against him. He told Rolling Stone in 2003, “I’ve been careless about how I viewed my business. But I trust that the truth is the truth and a lie is a lie.”
“Schumacher’s not a great director by any stretch, but he makes everyone happy, he makes money. But his version of me being unstable—he’s very smart, he can’t say anything about work, because then I can sue him for slander,” Kilmer had fired back.
He also praised himself at the time as he added, “the idea is that I’m not responsible. About what? Doing homework? Representing the character? Making money? I’ve made my employers over a billion dollars. I didn’t really set out to do that, but I’m very proud that I’ve consistently made money.”
