For Jude Law, It's Elementary, Dear Watson

Posted Monday, February 18, 2002 at 11:14 AM Central

by John Couture

Jude Law has certainly played a wide range of characters from the past, present and future. For his next couple of roles, it appears that Law will be stuck in Victorian England.

Up first, Jude Law will don the frilly outfits in Marlowe, a made-up story about how William Shakespeare stole all his major works from a contemporary. After that, Law will play perhaps the most famed English literary character, Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock Holmes And The Vengeance Of Dracula, where Professor Van Helsing hires the infamous sleuth to solve a batch of weird murders and ultimately puts the crime-solver in Dracula's cross-hairs.