{"id":48972,"date":"2016-07-07T12:25:31","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T19:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=48972"},"modified":"2016-07-08T00:26:22","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T07:26:22","slug":"paramount-releases-four-new-character-posters-for-ben-hur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2016\/07\/paramount-releases-four-new-character-posters-for-ben-hur.html","title":{"rendered":"Paramount releases new character posters for Ben-Hur<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Paramount released three sets of posters today featuring the five main characters from Ben-Hur<\/a><\/i>. Curiously, the main set of posters \u2014 released via the film\u2019s official social<\/a> media<\/a> accounts \u2014 did not include any images of Jesus, but the other two sets (at least one of which is aimed at foreign audiences) did. Check \u2019em out below the jump.<\/p>\n

First<\/b>, the main set, which consists of four posters \u2014 all of which, incidentally, say the film has been rated PG-13 for \u201csequences of violence and disturbing images\u201d.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Jack Huston as Judah Ben-Hur, doing something chariot-y:<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s Toby Kebbell as Messala, fighting someone in the snow:<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s Morgan Freeman as Judah\u2019s mentor, the Arab sheik Ilderim:<\/p>\n

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And here\u2019s Nazanin Boniadi as Judah\u2019s love interest Esther:<\/p>\n

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Second<\/b>, the British posters<\/a> are almost identical to the American posters, except they move the text to the bottom of the image and give a release date of August 26.<\/p>\n

They also include this image of Rodrigo Santoro as Jesus:<\/p>\n

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Third<\/b>, there is this set<\/a> of \u201cComing Soon\u201d posters without release dates or ratings:<\/p>\n

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\u2014 This post was rewritten to take the two extra sets of posters into account.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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