Gal Gadot reportedly passes on Ben-Hur due to scheduling conflict
Just a few weeks ago, we reported that Gal Gadot—Batman V. Superman‘s Wonder Woman—was in talks to play the female lead in Timur Bekmambetov’s Ben-Hur remake. We made a joke about directors who put everything in slow-motion, we talked about how weird it is for a movie’s central love story to be based on one person literally owning the other person, and, all in all, we had a pretty good time. According to a new report from The Wrap, though, we did all of that for nothing. That’s because Gal Gadot has now apparently passed on Ben-Hur due to scheduling conflicts with filming Zack Snyder’s big superhero punch-a-thon and “all that playing Wonder Woman entails.” We’re not sure what that last part means, but it probably has something to do with going off to live on Paradise Island away from the evils of men and their constant remakes.