Aeon Flux (2005)

[Drunk Monk]

I disdained this when it first came out. I still disdain it. The original MTV anime was cool - just lots of assassination vignettes. The film gave it a lackluster plot and echoes bits from the TV show. But what a cast: Charlize, Johnny Lee Miller, Czokas, McDormand - I’m sure they’re all embarrassed by this now. The fight choreography is so bad. The sets & costumes are so dated - like Star Trek TNG. And the story just plods along with dumb action sequences. I’ve said I’d watch Charlize in just about anything and here she is in a black catsuit doing action and fights plus really young and it’s pretty much unwatchable. Fun to see Czokas as a good guy tho - almost unrecognizable so young.

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

Agree about this movie and the original cartoon. MTV was playing some seriously good animated shows back then. The Maxx was one of my faves.

[Drunk Monk]

‘Aeon Flux’ Live-Action Reboot In Development At MTV

• Denise Petski
  June 12, 2018 1:18PM PDT
  

MTV
Aeon Flux may be returning to MTV. The Viacom-owned network is developing a live-action reboot of the 1990s animated series, from Jeff Davis (Teen Wolf, Criminal Minds) and The Walking Dead/Fear The Walking Dead’s Gale Anne Hurd, Deadline has confirmed.
Written by Davis, the live-action series is set in a future dystopian state and revolves around a young assassin who teams with a group of biohacking rebels to save humanity as she becomes the hero known as Aeon Flux. Davis will executive produce with Hurd, who produced the 2005 feature starring Charlize Theron.
The original series, created by animator Peter Chung, first aired on MTV in 1991 as a six-part sequence of shorts that was featured in its Liquid Television experimental animation series, followed in 1992 by five individual short episodes. In 1995, a season of ten half-hour episodes aired as a stand-alone series.
The 2005 feature starring Theron and co-starring Frances McDormand and produced by MTV Films, did not fare well either critically or financially, earning just $52.3 million worldwide.
The project marks a return to MTV for Davis, who created and served as showrunner on Teen Wolf, which ran for six seasons and was the highest-rated scripted series in network history . He also created and executive produces drama series Criminal Minds, which was recently renewed for its 14th season on CBS.
The Hollywood Reporter was first to report news of the reboot.