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  Timur Bekmambetov In Talks To Helm 'Ben-Hur' Reimagining

  By Germain Lussier August 19th, 2013

  Eight months ago, MGM bought the rights to Ben-Hur, a new spec script based on the nineteenth century novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace. That news was so crazy, I had wiped it out of my memory. MGM didn't though, and now the project is progressing. The latest update is that Timur Bekmambetov, the director of…

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  MGM Remaking 'Ben-Hur' From New Spec Script

  By Germain Lussier January 15th, 2013

  The 1959 film Ben-Hur, starring Charlton Heston, is one of the most revered films of all-time. Along with classics such as Gone with the Wind, Lawrence of Arabia, Citizen Kane and The Wizard of Oz, it's regularly in the discussion of the best American films ever made. Which, one would think, would make a remake off limits.…

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