Hitting the sweet spot right between the bankruptcy-inspired rehashing of all of MGM's old catalog titles, and the Bible movie craze that someone in Hollywood argues America is having, Deadline reports that MGM is creating a new version of Ben-Hur, the Roman Empire-era tale that was previously made into a classic film starring that embodiment of Jewishness, Charlton Heston. Given that MGM previously sold the rights to Ben-Hur to Ted Turner, just like a galley slave who finds a proud new life as a celebrated charioteer through faith and cunning and taking advantage of public domain, the new Ben-Hur will not technically be a remake of William Wyler's 1959 film, but rather a new adaptation of the 1880 novel from Lew Wallace.