Watch: A new featurette about the chariot race in Ben-Hur

Last week, Entertainment Tonight ran a segment on the making of the chariot-race sequence in the new version of Ben-Hur. Now Paramount has released a featurette of its own on that subject, using some of the same footage. Check it out below.

Here is the featurette, with behind-the-scenes footage and soundbites from director Timur Bekmambetov and co-stars Jack Huston and Toby Kebbell:

Update: It turns out Entertainment Tonight has posted an even longer version of this featurette, with extra soundbites from producer Sean Daniel and veterinarian Nicholas Snookes, who assure us that the horses were treated well:

Check out earlier trailers and other videos here:

• The first domestic and international trailers, the ‘Welcome to ShareBenHur.com’ video, and the Entertainment Tonight promo (March 16, 2016)
• The ‘Epic Faith’ trailer (March 23, 2016)
• The ‘Rodrigo Santoro as Jesus’ featurette (March 25, 2016)
• The second faith-based trailer (June 8, 2016)
• The Entertainment Tonight reports (June 11, 2016)