The Oscar-winning 1959 film Ben-Hur is being resurrected — as a television miniseries.

The 1959 won an unprecented eleven Academy Awards and featured the recently departed Charlton Heston as chariot racer General Lew Wallace .

“We want to look at the spirituality within the piece rather than directly relating it to a specific religion,” director David Wyler told Daily Variety — despite the fact the original novel was entitled Ben-Hur: A Tale of The Christ.