{"id":235325,"date":"2026-04-16T06:02:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T11:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/val-kilmer-resurrected-by-ai-as-deep-as-the-grave-trailer-brings-late-actor-back-to-the-big-screen-exclusive"},"modified":"2026-04-16T06:02:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T11:02:25","slug":"val-kilmer-resurrected-by-ai-as-deep-as-the-grave-trailer-brings-late-actor-back-to-the-big-screen-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/val-kilmer-resurrected-by-ai-as-deep-as-the-grave-trailer-brings-late-actor-back-to-the-big-screen-exclusive","title":{"rendered":"Val Kilmer Resurrected by AI: \u2018As Deep as the Grave\u2019 Trailer Brings Late Actor Back to the Big Screen (EXCLUSIVE)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m1hwb-kB_7A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The filmmakers behind \u201cAs Deep as the Grave\u201d have debuted the trailer for the upcoming historical drama, giving viewers a first look at the AI technology that was used to create <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/val-kilmer\/\" id=\"auto-tag_val-kilmer\" data-tag=\"val-kilmer\" >Val Kilmer<\/a>\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n<p>Kilmer, who died in 2025 after battling throat cancer, was cast as Father Fintan, a Catholic priest and Native American spiritualist, but was too sick to shoot his role. With the cooperation of Kilmer\u2019s estate and his daughter Mercedes, the \u201cAs Deep as the Grave\u201d team used generative AI to include the actor in the finished film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The filmmakers behind \u201cAs Deep as the Grave\u201d have debuted the trailer for the upcoming historical drama, giving viewers a first look at the AI technology that was used to create Val Kilmer\u2019s performance. Kilmer, who died in 2025 after battling throat cancer, was cast as Father Fintan, a Catholic priest and Native American spiritualist, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}