The Saint and Val Kilmer

To start off, I really liked The Saint as well as other Val Kilmer movies (save Spartan). Another poster said that The Saint had a budget of roughly 80 mil and raked in 118 mil, so that makes a return of and extra 38 million. Sure it wasn't a blockbuster but, I think what happened is that Kilmer got bad press from his behavior on the Batman Forever set (he pissed off Schumacher and Warner Brothers due to his erratic behavior i.e. flicking lit cigarettes at crew members and his "supposed" extramarital affair with which led to the demise of his marriage to Joanne Whalley) and his difficult behavior on the set of The Saint (where it sounds like he pissed off the producers and where he drove the costume designer insane by requesting hundreds of different sweaters for a particular scene and then he ends up choosing the original sweater presented to him). I also remember Kilmer and Elizabeth Shue going onto Oprah and plugging The Saint which I found incongruous. Sounds like the studio sabotaged the movie because they thought they had a stinker on their hands.

I think recently Kilmer has been climbing out the the morass and is slowly and surely strengthening his career and reputation.

I loved that biography they had of him on A&E where he was filmed at the Chateau Marmont, his home in L.A. when he films there. It was fascinating they could have done a reality type series on Val in L.A.