LOS ANGELES, March 19 — The late American film star Val Kilmer could soon be “acting” on the big screen again after allowing a director to use AI tools to produce his likeness for an upcoming film, media reports said yesterday.

Coerte Voorhees had tapped Kilmer, who died of pneumonia last year after years of battling throat cancer, for As Deep as the Grave, about the pioneering archaeologist Ann Morris, a co-discoverer of the Anasazi civilisation.