Gal Gadot passes on 'Ben-Hur' remake
"Batman v. Superman" remains a priority for Gadot, as scheduling priorities mean she's passed on a role in "Ben-Hur."
Russian director Timur Bekmambetov is steering the remake of "Ben-Hur" towards February 2016 and already has Jack Huston ("Boardwalk Empire") in the lead role, with Toby Kebbell of "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" as Ben-Hur's disloyal former friend and Morgan Freeman also on board.
Gadot, too, was wanted for the film, but a pre-existing commitment to 2016's "Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice" has put an end to that particular round of discussions, reports TheWrap, even if smaller parts in heist film "Triple Nine" and crime thriller Criminal (both 2015) had been feasible.
As iconic DC Comics heroine Wonder Woman, Gadot is to star in a number of other Warner Bros movies after "Batman v. Superman," with the lead role in "Wonder Woman" and further appearances in ensemble movie "Justice League" both scheduled for 2017.
Meanwhile, Bleeding Cool is reporting that the "Wonder Woman" film, part of a planned trilogy, will be set not in present times but in the 1920s, with the super-powered Amazon discovering America at the time that women had just been granted voting rights.
"A planned sequel would then take place during World War II in the thirties and forties," the speculation reads, "and a threequel would then take place in the modern day, with the Justice League Of America."
