According to reports in the States today, Britney Spears is set to agree to play a role in a somewhat peculiar film about the Holocaust.

The National Lodger website claims the controversial singer will appear in "The Yellow Star of Sophia and Eton" after completing her Circus concert tour.

Apparently the film features the story of Sophia LaMont (Spears' supposed character) who builds a time machine and travels back to World War Two where she meets Eton, a Jewish man held in a concentration camp.

Er, ok...

They fall in love, of course, and use said time machine to travel back to the 21st Century to be married. As you do.

Britney’s last film role, in Crossroads in 2002, was panned by the critics and said to be one of the worst films ever made.

By the sounds of it, if Sophia’s time machine ever gets off the ground, Crossroads could quickly find itself relieved of that tag.