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 the “worst human being” greater than a yr after the actor died from pneumonia.

The director, who labored with the late “Batman Perpetually” star within the 2008 motion thriller “Conspiracy,” took to Threads over the weekend in a now-deleted submit to name out Kilmer.

“#MicroIntellectMonday to that point after I directed that man. The man who performed Iceman and Doc Vacation [sic]. You already know the one,” he wrote alongside a photograph of himself and Kilmer, per Leisure Weekly.

“Right here’s me and the Putz working it out on the set of ‘Conspiracy,’” Marcus, 58, added.

The filmmaker then addressed followers who have been upset at his unfavourable feedback concerning the late “Prime Gun” star.

“And to any of you rolling your eyes due to the entire ‘don’t communicate in poor health of the useless bulls–t’, f–okay that,” he reportedly wrote and later deleted.

Marcus added that if Kilmer “did one-tenth of what he did on my set as we speak, he would have been cancelled in a blink.”

“Worst human being I’ve ever recognized… and that’s actually saying one thing,” he concluded.

Kilmer performed William “Spooky” MacPherson, a disabled particular operations Marine wounded throughout fight operations in Iraq, in Marcus’ movie.

When MacPherson visited a good friend within the Southwestern United States, he found that his pal had disappeared, and nobody would acknowledge that the individual ever lived there.

Kilmer was beforehand labeled as troublesome to work with in motion pictures.

In a 1996 interview with “Leisure Weekly,” “Batman Perpetually” director Joel Schumacher stated Kilmer was “infantile and inconceivable” and a “psychologically disturbed human being.”

The “Island of Dr. Moreau” director John Frankenheimer vowed by no means to work with Kilmer once more after the 1996 horror movie.

In a 2021 documentary about Kilmer’s life, the “Warmth” actor addressed the claims about his on-set conduct.

“I’ve behaved poorly. I’ve behaved bravely. I’ve behaved bizarrely to some,” he stated. “I deny none of this and don’t have any regrets as a result of I’ve misplaced and located components of myself that I by no means knew existed. And I’m blessed.”

Kilmer died at his house in Los Angeles in April 2025 from pneumonia. He was 65.

The “Tombstone” star was reportedly bedridden years earlier than his passing, resulting from a scarcity of power from his previous most cancers therapy.