Who on earth thought it would be a good idea to remake Ben-Hur?

Its like remaking The Godfather. Nobody wants to see that.

Hopefully the next dumb remakes continue to bomb so the practice ends.

Never really watched the original Ben-Hur, so this was a religious movie?

That would be great for games aswell

I was just curious, I know nothing of the films except it has some gladiator horse race xD

More The Prince of Egypt, less Exodus and Ben-Hur.

Remaking Ben-Hur is like remaking the Godfather.
They should never remake that classic, or Planet of the Apes, or Gone with the Wind, or any movie that was perfect already as it was.
I am the crazy fundamentalist christian from the site and had no interest in watching the remake, although I watched the original a bunch of times.
Religious movies should be independent and original anyways, any shadow of the gospel message gets lost when modern Hollywood put his disgusting witchcraft pedophile claws in it.

Amem to that. As far as I concerned they could do every single Bible book in a animated musical form if they had the Prince of Egypt quality to it.

Exodua and Noah where bad taste jokes. RISEN was amazing though.

I still find the notion that someone thought this was a movie that needed a remake amazing. They can't possibly make the original better, and there was noone clamouring to see it again. Literally NOONE asked for this. So why do it??