{"id":82,"date":"2005-03-08T08:28:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-08T15:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/?p=82"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"val-kilmer-plays-joseph-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2005\/03\/08\/val-kilmer-plays-joseph-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Val Kilmer Plays Joseph Smith?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesandseasons.org\/index.php?p=2018\">T&#038;S<\/a>, Richard Dutcher claims that he now has all the funds necessary to produce his new film on Joseph Smith. He also confirmed that Val Kilmer is interested in the lead role. In the T&#038;S thread, one commenter thinks that only a member of the church with a testimony of the Prophet should play him. Given my theatre experience and the fact I have occasionally had someone state I look(ed) like Joseph Smith, I&#8217;d be happy to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Doubt that would happen though. American filmmakers?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u201a\u00c4\u00f9especially LDS ones?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u201a\u00c4\u00f9don&#8217;t come to Canada looking for actors.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, I don&#8217;t think someone&#8217;s religious affiliation should be a consideration in casting. Look what happened to the flop that the Book of Mormon Movie was. I&#8217;d rather see a non-member experienced actor playing Joseph Smith that an active member, but poor actor playing him.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to T&#038;S, Richard Dutcher claims that he now has all the funds necessary to produce his new film on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2005\/03\/08\/val-kilmer-plays-joseph-smith\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Val Kilmer Plays Joseph Smith?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Val Kilmer Plays Joseph Smith?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2005\/03\/08\/val-kilmer-plays-joseph-smith\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Val Kilmer Plays Joseph Smith?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"According to T&#038;S, Richard Dutcher claims that he now has all the funds necessary to produce his new film on &hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2005\/03\/08\/val-kilmer-plays-joseph-smith\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Our Thoughts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"-0001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Kim Siever\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Kim Siever\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2005\/03\/08\/val-kilmer-plays-joseph-smith\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2005\/03\/08\/val-kilmer-plays-joseph-smith\/\",\"name\":\"Val Kilmer Plays Joseph Smith?\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"-0001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"-0001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/#\/schema\/person\/99e996edc89affe5206808d3f65869d1\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2005\/03\/08\/val-kilmer-plays-joseph-smith\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/\",\"name\":\"Our Thoughts\",\"description\":\"Thought-provoking commentary on life, politics, religion and social issues.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/#\/schema\/person\/99e996edc89affe5206808d3f65869d1\",\"name\":\"Kim Siever\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/417c7b5f55d329bdd0f64ef4396831db?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/417c7b5f55d329bdd0f64ef4396831db?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Kim Siever\"},\"description\":\"Queer Mormon poet with radical political views. 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