{"id":23783,"date":"2014-11-05T05:52:13","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T13:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=23783"},"modified":"2014-11-05T05:52:13","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T13:52:13","slug":"another-actor-joins-the-romans-in-the-new-ben-hur-remake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/11\/another-actor-joins-the-romans-in-the-new-ben-hur-remake.html","title":{"rendered":"Another actor joins the Romans in the new Ben-Hur<\/i> remake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"marwankenzari2\"<\/a>Deadline<\/a> reports that Marwan Kenzari<\/a>, a Dutch actor of Tunisian descent, has joined the cast of Ben-Hur<\/a><\/i> in the role of Druses, a Roman officer who works for Messala, the Roman official who betrays his boyhood friend Judah Ben-Hur.<\/p>\n

Druses appears to be identical to Drusus, a character from the original novel<\/a> who appeared in the 1959 film<\/a>, where he was played by Terence Longdon. (The 1925<\/a> and 2010<\/a> adaptations don\u2019t seem to have any characters with either name, at least not according to their IMDb pages.)<\/p>\n

However, the Drusus of the book is not mentioned by name until Book 4, Chapter 12, after Ben-Hur has already been sent into exile and returned as a Roman nobleman. Deadline, on the other hand, says Druses is \u201cinvolved\u201d somehow in Messala\u2019s initial betrayal of Ben-Hur. So it would seem the part has been expanded.<\/p>\n

This would not be the first character whose name was modified slightly by the current filmmakers. Morgan Freeman\u2019s character \u2014 a racehorse owner and mentor of Ben-Hur\u2019s who was originally called Ilderim \u2014 is now called Ildarin<\/a>, for example.<\/p>\n

One major character that has not been cast yet is Quintus Arrius, the Roman nobleman who discovers Ben-Hur when he is a slave and then adopts him, making him a Roman nobleman like himself. He was played by Jack Hawkins in 1959 and by Ray Winstone in 2010. I\u2019m curious to see who they pick to play that<\/i> role.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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