‘Conspiracy’ Director On Val Kilmer
He Was the ‘Worst Human Being’
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A director who worked with Val Kilmer says it’s no conspiracy … Val was the absolute worst person he’s ever known.
“Conspiracy” director Adam Marcus unloaded on Val in a series of since-deleted social media posts, according to Entertainment Weekly, calling him a “putz” and saying he had no problem speaking ill of the dead.
Adam said of Val … “Worst human being I’ve ever known… and that is really saying something.”
The director clearly expected some backlash over his comments, saying … “And to any of you rolling your eyes because of the whole ‘don’t speak ill of the dead bulls***,’ f*** that. [If] this guy did one-tenth of what he did on my set today, he would have been cancelled in a blink.”
Val starred as William “Spooky” MacPherson, a disabled Iraq War veteran who travels to Arizona to discover that his friend and his family have vanished, in the 2008 action thriller “Conspiracy.”
Adam’s comments come a little over a year since Val’s death … as you know, in April 2025 he died of pneumonia.
Despite Val having tons of fans, he didn’t exactly have a clean-cut reputation on set … according to Entertainment Weekly, Joel Schumacher directed Val in 1995’s “Batman Forever” and labeled him “childish and impossible” and a “psychologically disturbed human being.”
Val addressed the criticism while speaking to Rolling Stone in 2003 and admitted he’d been “careless about how I viewed my business.” However, he pushed back … “But I trust that the truth is the truth and a lie is a lie.”
In a 2021 documentary about his life, Val said he “behaved poorly” and even “bizarrely to some,” but said he had no regrets.