“Veteran French impresario Robert Hossein is undertaking a re-enactment of Ben-Hur in France’s biggest football stadium. “The sword-and-sandal epic in which Charlton Heston swept to victory after cinema’s most famous chariot race is to be staged on an epic scale at the arena where France won the football World Cup in 1998. A cast of several hundred will recreate naval battles between the Roman fleet and Mediterranean pirates, and stage ancient Roman gladiator fights and a live chariot race.”