Kilmer’s concerted attempts for a career revival is nothing short of startling, with this week’s Deja Vu being just one of the six films he’s been in during 2006. Most intriguing was sadly a direct-to-DVD live recording of a stage show in which he was appearing – as Moses – in The Ten Commandments: The Musical. He’s also been in Polish Western (yes, really) Summer Love, yet to get a UK release, as yet unreleased British gangster flick Played, and US mob drama 10th & Wolf (also unreleased). His career boom hasn’t been going too well so far, in other words…
He’s not been put off just yet, though, with a whole bunch more in the pipeline, from 1960s-set family drama A West Texas Children’s Story, surrealist rejected orphan revenge tale Coin Locker Babies and animated fantasy adventure Delgo (alongside the voices of the late Anne Bancroft, as well as other near-legends like Burt Reynolds and Eric Idle).
Most promising, however, are likely to be Alpha Numeric, a gangster drama in which Kilmer will star alongside Winona Ryder and Dennis Hopper, and The Dirt – assuming the rumours of his casting are true – which promises to be the story of rock group Mötley Crüe’s rise to fame. Kilmer is supposedly playing Van Halen singer David Lee Roth, alongside Chrstopher Walken as – get this – Ozzy Osbourne. Now that really WOULD rock…
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