Val Kilmer with Robert Downey Jr.
Val Kilmer with Robert Downey Jr. (Photo by: Malcolm Taylor/Everett Collection | DP)

Ahead of its world premiere at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival., Amazon Studios released the official trailer for the documentary “Val.” Directed by Leo Scott and Ting Poo, the documentary is compiled from thousands of hours of footage, including 16mm home movies shooting blockbuster movies like Top Gun and Batman Forever, much of it personally shot by Val Kilmer himself.

Amazon Studios will release VAL in theaters July 23rd, 2021and on Prime Video August 6th, 2021

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.

Watch the trailer for VAL.

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