It might be much cheaper to farm out animation work on movies to shops in Asia, but doing so can create some interesting situations.

Producers of GoodTimes Home Entertainment's upcoming animated version of Ben Hur said a young 3D artist at a studio in Southern China misinterpreted a rough pencil sketch of the streets of Jerusalem.

When producers received the animation, they noted that the artist had created sidewalks for the city even though the time setting was about 2,000 years ago.

Trying to help out, a storyboard artist arbitrarily decided to give Ben Hur's mother something extra to do, so she was animated cutting flowers with a pair of scissors. Not necessarily a bad bit of initiative except that scissors weren't invented until the late 1200s.
The 77-year-old actor Charlton Heston reprises the role of the title character-this time in voice only-for the movie, which is scheduled to be released in September or October.

"You don't often get a chance to do the same thing twice," said Heston, who also appeared in last year's remake of another of his most famous films, Planet of the Apes.

He and producer/director/writer son Fraser C. Heston, whose Agamemnon Films is putting together the new Ben Hur, said they might consider an animated version of The Ten Commandments, in which they both played the same role, that of Moses.

The elder Heston convinced legendary director Cecille B. DeMille to use his newborn son Fraser as the baby Moses.
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Old news, but I didn't know they'd started making it untill I saw the DVD in a walmart today. Charlton Heston is Ben Hur again.