BBC - Films - High Noon - 4th March 2004

		Oldman Cops It Thanks to Memento helmer Christopher Nolan for providing one thing worth writing about today: Gary Oldman is joining the director's Batman Begins. The scenery-chomping English actor will play Lieutenant James Gordon in the prequel, which explores the origins of the Caped Crusader. In later life, as any comic book fule no, the lieutenant becomes Commissioner Gordon. Christian Bale has squeezed into his batsuit, with shooting underway in Iceland.

		Carrey's Million Starsky And Hutch director Todd Phillips says Jim Carrey hasn't quite signed up to star in his adaptation of 70s TV series The Six Million Dollar Man - but he's close. "I think he would be funny," says Phillips. "Plus, it's ripe material for him. He's super interested. The idea has been thrown out to him and he wants to talk about it." Pirates Of The Caribbean producer Jerry Bruckheimer is set to snap up movie rights to hit videogame Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time. Game creator Jordan Mechner is scripting, with Big Fish scribe John August overseeing the story about a 9th century world-saving, um, prince, pitched as an ancient Indiana Jones. Popular - it says here - comic book Wanted has been snapped up for the screen by Universal. It's about Gibson, the illegitimate son of a supervillain who inherits his vast criminal empire. Star Trek: Nemesis director Stuart Baird will next helm Possession, a supernatural thriller about a bloke who haunts his mother after dying in a car crash. And that, dear friends, is the bottom of the barrel.