![]() ![]() The two cities engage in a futile, never-ending war for ideological supremacy. Her mission is to infiltrate and destroy the strongholds of the city of Bregna / ˈ b r ɛ n j ə/, which is led by her sworn enemy, and sometimes lover, Trevor Goodchild - the technocratic dictator of Bregna, whose citizens are called Breens. ![]() The title character is a tall, sexy, scantily clad dominatrix secret agent from the city of Monica - skilled in espionage, assassination and acrobatics. The setting comprises a bizarre dystopia populated by mutant creatures, clones, and robots, set within the separated border-wall cities of Monica and Bregna. Æon Flux is set in a surreal German Expressionist-style futuristic universe. The live-action movie Æon Flux, loosely based upon the series and starring Charlize Theron, was released in theaters on December 2, 2005, preceded in November of that year by a tie-in video game of the same name based mostly on the movie but containing some elements of the original TV series. ![]() Each episode's plot has elements of social science fiction, biopunk, allegory, dystopian fiction, spy fiction, psychological drama, postmodern visual, psychedelic imagery and Gnostic symbolism. Æon Flux was created by American animator Peter Chung. In 1995, a season of ten half-hour episodes aired as a stand-alone series. It premiered on MTV's Liquid Television experimental animation show, as a six-part serial of short films, followed in 1992 by five individual short episodes. For now, it remains to be seen whether or not Jeff Davis and MTV Entertainment Studios are up to the task of doing justice to Peter Chung’s animated masterpiece, as this practically entails revolutionizing the way animation is adapted into live-action content.Æon Flux / ˌ iː ɒ n ˈ f l ʌ k s/ is an American avant-garde science fiction adventure animated television series that aired on MTV from November 30, 1991, until October 10, 1995, with film, comic book, and video game adaptations following thereafter. Without the creative and logistical difficulties of single-film production, which reportedly plagued the 2005 Aeon Flux movie, the franchise could finally break out of the shadow of the Wachowski sisters, who actually count Aeon Fluxas one of their inspirations for creating The Matrix and its sequels, and even enlisted Chung to produce an episode of The Animatrix. The series format, combined with Davis’ experience in rebooting cult material, could prove to be a much more conducive arena for properly fleshing out Peter Chung’s Aeon Flux in a live-action setting – a puzzle that hasn’t been solved since the animated series ended 26 years ago. However, Teen Wolf’s Jeff Davis has been confirmed to be the showrunner for the new Aeon Flux, which will be a series that will stream on Paramount+. The Aeon Flux reboot doesn’t have a release date just yet. Set in the year 7698, this bizarre universe is home to Aeon Flux, a spy from the anarchist city of Monica, and her lover and arch-enemy Trevor Goodchild, the technocratic dictator of the Orwellian city-state of Bregna. In contrast to the Aeon Flux movie’s straightforward themes, Peter Chung’s original animated series has a largely ambiguous dystopian plot, which is told through the lenses of BDSM, erotic fetishism, biotechnology, gnosticism, horror, and psychedelia – and animated in a style that, according to Peter Chung, was influenced by Hergé, Moebius, and German Expressionist painters. These movies were heavily influenced by 1999’s The Matrix, the highly successful Wachowski sisters film which popularized dystopian sci-fi themes in mainstream turn-of-the-century cinema. Aeon Flux shares its visual style and political themes with several other dystopian sci-fi movies released in the same era, such as Ultraviolet and Equilibrium. ![]() In the film, the titular character Aeon Flux is part of a rebel group called the Monicans, who frees the people of Bregna from the Goodchild regime, which turns out to be lying about everything to its people in order to maintain power and control. ![]()
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