Crazy Ben-Hur remake from the director of Wanted gets a trailer

So you want to remake swords and sandals epic Ben-Hur and the chosen director is the man who made Wanted, Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter and Nightwatch.

We're huge fans of Kazakh director Timur Bekmambetov's style, and maybe this is an inspired choice. His visuals are utterly unique and his set pieces totally inspired, so he could be the perfect person to take what had the potential to be another staid and stuffy remake and take it all up to 11. There's certainly evidence of that in the first trailer, which has just debuted.