Willow Producer Explains How Val Kilmer's Role in Top Gun: Maverick Inspired the Disney+ Series

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Willow Producer Explains How Val Kilmer's Role in Top Gun: Maverick Inspired the Disney+ Series
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Here's how Top Gun: Maverick inspired Willow...

Earlier this year, Val Kilmer was seen reprising his role as Tom"Iceman" Kazansky in Top Gun: Maverick alongside Tom Cruise. However, there was another iconic role that he was unable to come back to this year: Madmartigen from Willow. The new Disney+ series of the same name debuted this week and sees Ruby Cruz and Demspey Bryk playing Madmartigen's children, but Kilmer is not in the fantasy show.

Kasdan continued,"Most specifically, we added this old member of his team that felt like he would fit into this sort of Madmartigan school of scoundrels, and the only person we wanted for the part was Christian Slater. And you can imagine my shock when Christian Slater was like, 'Absolutely. Sign me up, give me a sword and I'll kick some ass.' It was one of the most exciting moments ever. And then Christian reached out to Val, and they had some communication.

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