chariot races were real in latest ben hur

Of the 180 minutes that the acclaimed motion picture, Ben-Hur, is on the screen, the 15-minute chariot race scenes are the most vividly remembered and, the most talked about by movie fans and critics.

“Those are real horses, real actors driving real chariots on the track,” Bekmambetov told Business Insider. Ben Hur drives matched Lippizaners in the climactic chariot race scene from the film, Ben-Hur, based upon Lew Wallace’s novel. Lockdown from Transformers Animated has spikes on the wheels of his car mode. Turbine, one of the villainous Road Crew in the Ben 10 episode 'Ben 4 Good Buddy', has retractable wheel spikes as one of the armaments on her car. For the race, 78 horses were imported from Yugoslavia and. Used by Nelson in the episode of The Simpsons where he races against Bart, in a direct parody of the Ben-Hur chariot race.

Like the Heston movie, the latest adaptation of the Lew Wallace novel, out August 19, hinges on a thrilling chariot race in which Ben-Hur (played in the latest film by Jack Huston) battles the person who betrayed him.īased on what you see in the trailer, you'd probably assume the race was shot in a Los Angeles soundstage with full green screen.īut the film's director Timur Bekmambetov (“Wanted,” “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”) revealed to Business Insider that much of the sequence was done without computer graphics. Some 10,000 extras appeared in 'Ben-Hur,' including 1,500 on any day that the chariot sequence needed a crowd in the stadium grandstands. In March, Paramount released the first trailer for its summer blockbuster, “Ben-Hur,” a remake of the Charlton Heston Oscar-winning classic, which follows the journey of a Jewish prince, named Judah Ben-Hur, who is betrayed, sent into slavery, and then seeks vengeance.

Chariot races were real in latest ben hur