Val Kilmer, who died of pneumonia at 65 on April 1, famously had a negative experience portraying Batman in 1995's Batman Forever. "It’s not about Batman. There is no Batman," he once said in an interview.

Fans online are demanding the release of Joel Schumacher's cut of Batman Forever starring Val Kilmer, after his death. Read on for more.

On Tuesday, April 1, 2025, legendary actor Val Kilmer, best known for Batman Forever and Top Gun, died at 65 years old. His daughter, Mercedes, revealed pneumonia to be the cause of death to The New York Times. The actor passed away in his Los Angeles home. He has a long history of battling throat cancer.

Val Kilmer, Jim Carrey, and Tommy Lee Jones starred in Joel Schumacher's swing at the iconic DC Comics property in 1995.

The film was polarizing among fans, but the Batsuit drew widespread criticism for featuring nipples and its overall look. On May 22, 2017, Val Kilmer addressed the challenges in wearing the Batsuit at the C2E2 comic convention. He added that the experience of donning the famed suit was "almost psychedelic."

A wide-ranging leading man who earned critical praise, he was known to be charismatic but unpredictable. At one point he dropped out of Hollywood for a decade.

Val Kilmer‘s Top Gun and Batman Forever co-stars are paying tribute to the late actor, who died Tuesday at age 65. Tom Cruise — who played Maverick opposite Kilmer as his rival turned wingman Iceman in 1986’s Top Gun — honored his co-star with a moment of silence during Paramount’s CinemaCon panel in Las Vegas

"I'm remembering Val Kilmer today with great admiration for him as a man and as a generational talent who left us an enviable legacy of indelible acting performances," Carrey said