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Willow: Why Val Kilmer had to be written out of reboot TV series ‘late in the process’

Showrunner opened up on ‘insurmountable’ reason for actor’s absence

The Independent UK

Is Val Kilmer in new Willow? Here's how it could still happen

Val Kilmer's memorable Madmartigan still remains an important character on the show, but not in the way fans of the original Willow movie hoped.

Inverse

A "Willow" quest that includes everyone

Although the Disney+ show takes time to hit its stride, it offers a refreshing take on the usual fantasy narrative

Salon

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Review: 'Willow' sequel series, boasts a returning Warwick Davis, begins in fine fantasy style

During a recent viewing of "Willow" on Disney+, the, well, 1988-ness of the fantasy adventure just jumped off the screen. It still has plenty to offer — including the bond formed by its unlikely namesake hero, portrayed by Warwick Davis, and his companion-in-quest Madmartigan, Val Kilmer's confident but disgraced knight…

Tribune News Service

Willow review: The TV adaptation is finally here – and it’s fine, just fine

Warwick Davis returns in the long-awaited series based on the fantasy film

The Independent UK

Colorado's broken child custody system

"Sometimes the judge just cuts and pastes all my recommendations and puts it into the court order," evaluator brags

Salon

After 'Top Gun: Maverick,' Val Kilmer sets his sights on another revival: 'Batman'

Val Kilmer fans, rejoice: Iceman wants to play Batman — again.

Los Angeles Times

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‘Yea please’: Val Kilmer says he’d be interested in reprising his role as Batman

Actor played the superhero in 1995 film ‘Batman Returns’

The Independent UK

Top Gun: Maverick flies past $1bn at the box office to become 2022’s highest grossing film

Tom Cruise thriller has overtaken ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’

The Independent UK

Top Gun: Maverick on track to make $1bn at the box office

Tom Cruise sequel is only the third Hollywood film to surpass $900 since the pandemic began

The Independent UK

Top Gun: Val Kilmer shares moving message following cameo alongside Tom Cruise in sequel

‘36 years later… I’m still your wingman,’ commented Kilmer

The Independent UK

Val Kilmer explains his 'Top Gun: Maverick' return and 'authentic friendship' with Tom Cruise

The Iceman cometh again, this time as a friend. And as Val Kilmer tells The Times, "I can't believe how kind the whole world has been. ... It's very humbling."

Los Angeles Times

Spotify To Scoop Company Behind Val Kilmer's Voice In Tom Cruise Blockbuster

Spotify Technology SA (NYSE:SPOT) agreed to acquire Sonantic. Sonantic is a dynamic AI voice platform that creates compelling, nuanced, and stunningly realistic voices from the text. The financial terms of the transaction remain undisclosed. Sonantic technology helped bring Val Kilmer’s voice to life in Tom Cruise’s blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick, the TechCrunch reports. Kilmer was…

Benzinga

‘The Cruise mythology’: Why Top Gun’s star is ‘action fit’ compared to original co-stars

Why Top Gun mega star Tom Cruise looks action fit compared to his original co-stars, and why only one was invited to return for the blockbuster sequel.

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I'd never seen 1986's 'Top Gun,' so I watched it with the biggest Tom Cruise fan I know

SEATTLE — Here's a problem I had when I was prepping to review the new "Top Gun: Maverick" movie: I'd never seen the original one.

Daily Mirror

Val Kilmer left 'very moved' after 'speaking' to Tom Cruise in Top Gun: Maverick

Val Kilmer, playing Tom 'Iceman' Kazansky, made a cameo in the much-anticipated sequel - released 36 years after the original film - despite losing his voice to throat cancer in 2015

Daily Mirror

Val Kilmer's daughter Mercedes admits she's never seen dad's classic movie Top Gun

Actress Mercedes Kilmer says the movie classic Top Gun in which her dad made his name as 'Iceman' isn't her cup of tea and she has never even watched it

Los Angeles Times

Why Val Kilmer’s brief cameo is the most powerful moment in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’

Val Kilmer’s lone scene in “Top Gun: Maverick” is strikingly powerful — not only because it successfully projects decades of close friendship between his character, Tom “Iceman” Kazansky, and Tom Cruise’s, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, but because it also draws on the actor’s own experiences. The combination lays fertile ground for…

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Review: Top Gun: Maverick

Tom Cruise’s long-delayed return flight.

Los Angeles Times

17 ‘Top Gun’ callbacks to watch for in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’

If you feel the need — the need for nostalgic callbacks galore — worry not. “Top Gun: Maverick” has you covered.

Belfast Live

Film Review: Tom Cruise's Top Gun Maverick shows there's life in the old dogfight yet

Why change what was obviously a winning formula?

Inverse

You need to watch Tom Cruise’s most iconic thriller before it leaves Netflix next week

It’s infamous. It’s ridiculous. It’s awesome.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Top Gun: Maverick’ follows the original movie’s flight pattern, and that’s how we want it

Even as you see all the plot twists coming, Tom Cruise’s charms and the spectacular aerial action still take your breath away.

The Independent UK

Top Gun: Maverick review – Tom Cruise soars in a sequel that’s as thrilling as blockbusters get

There’ll need to be a reckoning over the film’s politics and its treatment of women, but for now... we fist-pump

The Independent UK

Top Gun: Maverick review – Tom Cruise soars in a sequel that’s as thrilling as blockbusters get

There’ll need to be a reckoning over the film’s politics and its treatment of women, but for now... we fist-pump

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