What you may need to know:
1. Remakes. Remakes everywhere.
2. To be fair, William Wyler’’s 1959 version with gun lovin’ Charlton Heston was a remake.
3. Lew Wallace’s novel had already been adapted for the screen in 1907 and 1925.
4. Morgan Freeman’s hair deserves its own movie.
5. I presume that the chariot race will make the podrace sequence in Phantom Menace look tastefully restrained in comparison.
6. Broadsheet prognosis: Ben there, done that.
Release Date: August 26.
(Mark writes about film, TV and other stuff at WhyBother.ie)
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Christ….
Well I know what I’m doing on Sunday now, gonna watch the original Ben Hur. And get a bag of Emeralds.
Surely your last point should be ‘Ben there, Hur-d it all before’?
I’ll get me coat…
Well Hail Caesar was perfectly timed
Ah, they’ve neatly sidestepped the gay subplot by making masala his brother.
Charlton Heston will be delighted.
You should shout down to tell him