New Movie Coming: Aeon Flux

[Ash]

Just thought I'd let you all know that Charlize Theron has definitely signed on to star as the female lead in Aeon Flux.
She's reportedly getting a cool 10 million for the role!
On the IMDB message board someone mentioned Carrie Ann Moss (she played Trinity in The Matrix) in the lead role...I think she'd be great in it as well but looks like Charlize beat her to it.

I loved that cartoon when it was on Liquid Television.  
That was way back in the days when MTV was actually cool and not the teeny bopper pit of shame that it is now.

Here's a great link for tons of info on the cartoon:  

http://www.sadgeezer.com/html/Sections+index-req-viewarticle-artid-40-page-1.html

If I'm not mistaken, Karen Kusama is directing and they're shooting it down in Brazil.
Here's the synopsis for the film:

"Aeon Flux is set 400 years in the future in a world where humans have nearly been wiped out by a virus, with the remains of mankind living in a city encased in a protective bubble. The title character, an acrobatic superheroine, is assigned to kill the government leader."

Now if I remember correctly, didn't the guy kill her in the cartoon?
Didn't he run her through with a sword?
I forget....it's been literally 10 years since I saw it.

What do you think?
Did you used to watch the old cartoon and will you go to see this when it's released?



Post Edited (03-10-04 16:57)

[Mr_Vindictive]

Dude, I had read last week that Theron was up for the role.  I too loved Liquid TV, way back when MTV was great.  Glad to see that she is acting in the film; can't wait to see it released.  Wonder what kind of opening it will recieve?  Does anyone other than us geeks really remember the show?

Time will tell.

[Daniel Johnson]

   Yes, yes, yes! I remember this show very well and almost purchased a copy of the DVD, but right when I decided to it ran out of print, I can still probably get one off ebay, but I grow weary of that effort. Yes Trevor Fairchild (I think that's his last name can't remember) did kill the lead in the cartoon, but she died in every episode, but was replaced each time with clones of herself, great show.

[Dunners]

Aeonm Flux, ewwww

Charlize Theron, EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!

[Neon Noodle]

Yep, I remember Aeon Flux too. Liquid TV did rock, back in the day, back before dirt was invented....

[Conrad]

I think the in-joke about Aeon Flux was that she did, indeed, die in each episode yet was back for the next.  I loved it!!

[THEtinyTIN]

This flick's gonna bite. They should use unknowns so it can become a huge underground cult classic. Now there is no hope for that when an oscar winner is in the lead role.

[dean]

I agree, Theron would suck as Aeon Flux.  Get an unknown and keep it cult.

Damn, now i feel like cabbage

[Mr. Hockstatter]

A live action version of the cartoon?  I used to have high hopes for remakes, until I saw about thirty of them.  If they had the creativity to make a good film, they wouldn't be copying someone else's.  A big name actress almost guarantees suckiness.  People watch Aeon Flux and there's something that draws them to it.  Whatever "it" is, Hollywood will miss the point entirely - even going out of their way to screw it up - and give us their tried-and-true money making method with a few Flux elements superimposed on top in the most trite way.  Just imagine the worst possible way of ruining a good show, and that's what Hollywood will do with it.

[THEtinyTIN]

Yeah, like watching Super Mario Bros. on Ice.

[Yaddo42]

I loved the original "serial" story when it was on Liquid TV years ago. Told a great tale with no dialogue. I even liked the next version, still silent, but where she died each time and the episodes were mostly self-contained. I hated the regular series with dialogue, the plots were stupid and the people responsible seemed to think a little style, even less action, and hints at kinky sex could make up for poor writing.

I'd like to see a movie if they did it like the first version, no dialogue and a strong story. But that seems unlikely, so I'm not looking forward to a live action version.

[rich andrini]

man i loved aeon flux i have all three tapes (yes tapes) that were put out. does any one if peter chung is involed in it i mean hes the guy who created it so if got  input it might not be all tht bad

[-=NiGHTS=-]

Peter Chung makes me want to cry sometimes.

Did anyone see 'Matriculated'?

[grimsnipe]

> Now if I remember correctly, didn't the guy kill her in the
> cartoon?
> Didn't he run her through with a sword?
> I forget....it's been literally 10 years since I saw it.

HEhe.. I'm going to show my Geekness here... yes, I DO remember this show, even have two VHS tapes of it I watched recently (bought them about three years ago at a bit pawn shop.)

Can't recall the sword part, but yes, Aeon did die several times in the first two seasons.  

Okay, this gets confusing, so hold on...

Season one, which we saw on Liquid Televsion, had Aeon attempting to kill some governor or other while a plague was ravaging the world she lived.  I DON"T think Trevor was the guy she was trying to kill in those eps, but Trevor did appear in the early eps.  (He had this habit intentionally letting the virus carring bugs into a wound in his hand so he could extract the bug and spread the gunk onto creackers.  EWWWW!!!)

Anyway, the first season ends wiht Aeon (who unknowningly earlier stepped on a nail and has it protruding partly through her shoe), stands up on a balcony, the nail goes through, she screams falls and dies.  They then cut to some guy staring at a screen of with several pictures of Aeon Flux, one of them flashing red.  The guy sighs, presses a button and the backpack the dead Aeon's wearing explodes.  He then presses another Aeon picture and that Aeon is apparently "born".

Season two was also on Liquid TV, short eps in which Aeon always died in the end.  I read an interview with the shows creator and he said he didn't really mean to imply there were several clones or robots of Aeon, but that he dying at the end of each ep was for dramatic purposes or something (I can't recall the exact details been too long since I read the interview.)

Season three was  when Aeon Flux turned into a full half hour show and for the first time the characters actually talked.  Trevor and Aeon  were the only two reoccuring characters .  Like the previous seasons, the third season had several surreal elements and stories with often thick with (sometimes confusing) symbolism.

(And yes, I really do wish sometimes I had more of a life.)

Hope this  was informative.  BTW, the link is great, check it out!
 
> What do you think?
> Did you used to watch the old cartoon and will you go to see
> this when it's released?

I don't kow.. I wonder how much of the original show will come through in the movie.  IWill it be more violence and action laden like the first season, surreal and symbolic like the third, or a bit of both?  If what you say about Theron getting 10 mill for the part is true, sounds like it'll be a big budget picture, which in Hollywood usually means the bigger the budget the more "dumbed down" the plot will be.  I'll have to wait for the trailer to decided.  

Hope for the best though.

-grim

[Dunners]

will gladly pass on seeing this pile of hollywood waste