Jack Huston and Timur Bekmambetov help breathe new life into the classic Ben-Hur

The new Ben-Hur film stars the latest member of Huston family to make a mark on the movie world, writes Will Lawrence.

IT’S not easy revisiting an iconic action scene, and few moments from cinema history echo like the chariot race from 1959’s Ben-Hur, a sequence said to have taken almost a year to carry from page to screen.

But this is the challenge facing director Timur Bekmambetov who is overseeing the latest film adaptation of Lew Wallace’s 1880 literary blockbuster Ben-Hur: A Tale Of The Christ.