Every now and then there's a celeb that is just so hot, it's enough to turn the most secure in their sexuality person out there into a drooling mess. For the girls & gay guys it's Angelina Jolie, for the guys & lesbians though it's gotta be Jude Law. Well now Jude once again is proving you can't shoehorn him into a specific field or type of movie as he prepares to play a doomed gay aristocrat for a big remake.

The NY Social Diary & Coming Soon reports that Jude Law will be joining Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connolly in a new movie version of Evelyn Waugh's romantic novel "Brideshead Revisited", from Warner Independent Pictures. The movie is being directed by David Yates with the script by Andrew Davies.

"Brideshead Revisited" opens in England on the eve of the World War II. Charles Ryder (Bettany), the main character and narrator, is presented as a rather incompetent officer in the British Army. He stumbles upon an English country house, which he has visited more than twenty years before. Upon seeing the house, Charles begins to tell the story of his years at Oxford, his meeting Sebastian Flyte (Law) and his love for Julia (Connelly) - both members of a crumbling and doomed aristocratic Catholic family. Charles forms intense romantic relationships with the two over the course of the years, despite both eventually falling to pieces.

The most famous adaptation of the book has to be the 11-episode 1981 Granada TV British series starring Laurence Olivier, Claire Bloom and a then unknown but about to explode Jeremy Irons who made his name in the part of Charles. It's considered a true classic in many ways because it's success inspired the famous 'white flanel' Heritage England period pieces such as "Chariots of Fire", "A Passage to India" and "A Room with a View".

This new version however instead of exploring Charles Ryder and Sebastian Flyte's relationship, Davies has focused on the doomed love affair between Charles and Julia Flyte. His script explores how Catholicism destroys their relationship and their families - "I'm much less enamoured of all that Oxford snobbery than some people. It's written from the point of view of someone who does not believe in the religious themes as Evelyn Waugh did. If God can be said to exist in my version, he would be the villain".

Law is expected to work on the film starting late Summer.

Thanks to 'Oh Yeah'