Director Who Worked With Val Kilmer Brands Actor The 'Worst' Person He's 'Ever Known'

The late actor Val Kilmer just got broadsided in the hereafter by the director he worked with on the 2008 film Conspiracy.

Filmmaker Adam Marcus called the Doors star “the worst human being I’ve ever known” while pooh-poohing the notion that one shouldn’t “speak ill of the dead”.

Accompanied by a photo of himself with Val on the social media Threads, Adam wrote (in the now-deleted post) per Entertainment Weekly: “#MicroIntellectMonday to that time when I directed that guy. The guy who played Iceman and Doc Holiday [sic]. You know the one.

“Here’s me and the Putz working it out on the set of Conspiracy.”

“And to any of you rolling your eyes because of the whole ‘don’t speak ill of the dead’ bullshit, fuck that,” Adam continued. 

If Kilmer “did one-tenth of what he did on my set today, he would have been cancelled in a blink”, he added. “Worst human being I’ve ever known… and that is really saying something.”

Val played a war vet trying to solve a friend’s disappearance in the heavily-panned Conspiracy.

But Marcus just smoked him with one of the toughest reviews of all. And that’s saying something.

After working with the actor on Batman Forever, Joel Schumacher once called the late performer “childish and impossible”. Meanwhile, The Island Of Dr. Moreau director John Frankenheimer said he’d never work with him again.

Even ex-girlfriend Cher gave Val Kilmer a mixed review – albeit a lighthearted one – following his 2025 death from pneumonia at the age of 65, referring to him as a “pain in the ass”.

Adam Marcus did not immediately respond to a HuffPost request for comment.

In a 2021 documentary about his life and career, Val conceded: “I have behaved poorly. I have behaved bravely. I have behaved bizarrely to some.

“I deny none of this and have no regrets because I have lost and found parts of myself that I never knew existed. And I am blessed.”