Watch Jack Huston Recreate an Epic Chariot Race in the Trailer for BenHur
When it was released in 1959, the epic film Ben-Hur, based on Lew Wallace's 1880 novel Ben-Hur A Tale of the Christ, became the second highest-grossing film in history and broke the record for most Academy Awards, winning 11. A new film of the same name, whose trailer was released Wednesday, isn't a remake or a rehashing of the movie that won Charlton Heston his Oscar, but a new adaptation of Wallace's story. Starring Jack Huston as Judah Ben-Hur, the movie tells the story of two brothers whose love turns to rivalry, and whose rivalry is sorted out in a chariot race of epic proportions. The trailer offers a glimpse of Ben-Hur's journey from a stately home in Jerusalem to enslavement on a Roman battleship to the moment of his glory in the arena. The stakes are high but the rules are simple. As Morgan Freeman's trainer counsels his pupil "If you lose, you die.", Ben-Hur hits theaters Aug. 12.