Val Kilmer Looks Back at Batman and the Rest of His Career in Doc Val

Val Kilmer has had a protracted and diversified appearing profession—not simply in style films, although he has made fairly just a few of these. So we’re used to seeing him in entrance of the digital camera. But who knew that the star of Batman Forever, Willow, Top Gun, Tombstone, and so many different iconic films was additionally behind the digital camera lots of the time, too?

Coming quickly from Amazon Prime Video, the documentary Val chronicles the actor’s a long time in Hollywood (with what appears like some childhood footage too, in addition to new interviews with the actor following his current battle with throat most cancers). Notably, lots of the doc is made up of footage Kilmer shot himself. Today, a brand-new trailer has arrived. Take a glance:

Kilmer didn’t direct the movie (Leo Scott and Ting Poo are credited as co-directors) however he’s amongst its producers, and clearly had a heavy hand in bringing it collectively. Still, it doesn’t appear to be Val will maintain again on displaying a few of the darker sides of present biz. It additionally appears like there’ll be some intriguing cameos from his co-stars from over time—together with a really younger Kevin Bacon and Sean Penn, who appeared with Kilmer in Broadway’s Slab Boys within the early Nineteen Eighties.

Here’s the official description: “For over 40 years Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood’s most mercurial and/or misunderstood actors has been documenting his own life and craft through film and video. He has amassed thousands of hours of footage, from 16mm home movies made with his brothers, to time spent in iconic roles for blockbuster movies like Top Gun, The Doors, Tombstone, and Batman Forever. This raw, wildly original and unflinching documentary reveals a life lived to extremes and a heart-filled, sometimes hilarious look at what it means to be an artist and a complex man.”

The actor took to Twitter to share his pleasure concerning the documentary: “It feels like yesterday and yet it has been a lifetime. As I write this, my documentary is getting ready to premiere at Festival De Cannes. And as grateful as I am for being selected with this high honor, I look forward most to sharing my life’s story with all of you.”

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After its Cannes debut, Val hits theaters on July 23, then arrives on Amazon Prime Video on August 6.

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