Val Kilmer was one of the vital fashionable, attention-grabbing actors of the late ’80s and early ’90s, starring in motion pictures alongside the likes of Tom Cruise and Kevin Bacon. He could not have gone on to attain the identical type of mainstream success as a few of his friends, however he has continued to behave persistently, and he’s now seeing the final 40 years of his life and work culminate in maybe his most formidable challenge but: a documentary the place he’s the topic.

A trailer for the movie, entitled Val and as a result of be launched each in theaters and on streaming through Amazon Prime, dropped this week. Compiled from hundreds of hours’ price of footage, the vast majority of which was shot on video digital camera by Kilmer himself, administrators Ting Poo and Leo Scott assist the 61-year-old actor inform his story. An avid filmmaker himself, Kilmer introduced the documentarians with a wealth of fabric spanning his total profession, together with the time he spent making a few of his best-known motion pictures, like High Gun, Warmth, Willow, Tombstone, The Doorways, and Batman Eternally.

The movie additionally follows Kilmer’s latest journey with throat most cancers, from which he’s nonetheless within the technique of recovering. After present process a tracheotomy as a part of his therapy, Kilmer now speaks utilizing a voice field, however explains within the trailer that he nonetheless has issue making himself understood—and that this has made him much more desirous to share his story.

“I’ve lived a magical life,” he says within the clip above. “I’ve behaved poorly, I’ve behaved bravely, bizarrely to some… I see myself as a delicate, clever human being, with the soul of a clown.”

Val comes on the heels of Kilmer’s memoir, I am Your Huckleberry, which was revealed by Simon & Schuster final 12 months.