Val Kilmer — How Cancer-Ravaged Actor Turned Into A Silent Movie Star

Val Kilmer has lost his once-hearty voice and A-list career to rampaging cancer, said friends who fear that the brave "Batman" star is counting out his sad final days!

The "Top Gun" hunk’s throat is so ravaged by cancer that he can only speak in very hushed tones, and his voice had to be dubbed in his last movie. “The reality is he can’t act the way he used to because his throat has been damaged so badly. His voice still sounds very odd,” The National ENQUIRER learned from an insider.  

“It’s really noticeable and hard to understand him," the source said. “This is a major problem for Val because he has to have his lines dubbed over. That’s obviously difficult and expensive for the studios. They might think twice about casting him in the future. He just can’t perform as well as he used to.”

The few lines Val croaked in the 2017 box office bomb "The Snowman" had to be re-dubbed. “He now faces seeing his scenes in the projects he’s currently working on end up on the cutting room floor,” adds the mole.

All through 2015 — Val, a Christian Scientist who shuns modern medicine in favor of prayer — was seen wearing a scarf covering his throat, triggering buzz he was being treated for cancer, which he denied until recently.

Now friends are even more terrified the "Tombstone" star — shown here in Tombstone, Ariz., this August in photos exclusively obtained by RadarOnline — remains mired in his medical crisis.

“He still looks gaunt,” the insider said of Val, shown here Dec. 8, 2017 with friends in Miami, Fla. “He wouldn’t say if he was at death’s door because he doesn’t want people to be concerned about him. Sadly, that only makes his friends more worried. His pals are just praying this isn’t the end for Val.”