They’re remaking Ben-Hur and they want Tom Hiddleston to star in it. We understand your complicated feelings at this time. ‘They’ are MGM, Paramount and director Timur Bekmambetov, who’ve set a February 26, 2016 release date for this new take on Ben-Hur. According to Deadline, the studios are courting Hiddleston (of Loki and Internet love affair fame) to […]
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Play It Again – Ben-Hur
February 18, 2014 
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By Glenn Dunks February 18, 2014 Play It Again is a weekly feature in which our classic-film connoisseurs revisit a revered motion picture from the annals of movie history, to see if it holds up… or if it has aged terribly. And yes, it takes its name from a famously misquoted Casablanca line. Hey, whatever. It […]
Continue readingBen Hur reboot in the works (now with more Jesus)
January 16, 2013 0 Comments
In news that signals this remake craze is well and truly out of control, Deadline reports that MGM is looking to mount a new take on Ben Hur. As with most remakes these days, insiders are claiming this reboot returns to the source material of Lew Wallace’s 1880 novel Ben Hur: A Tale Of The […]
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