![]() ![]() 16 years after the Aeon Flux movie and 26 years after the series ended, a new cast will be stepping in to try and fill Aeon’s knee-high boots. And while the actor did what she could to give life to the titular role, it wasn’t enough to save 2005’s Aeon Flux from flopping in the box office. Aeon Flux wasn’t Charlize Theron’s worst movie, but it’s also far from her best. This isn’t to say that the cast of the 2005 Aeon Flux movie wasn’t right for the job. Andrea Carvajal as Una Steffan Chirazi as Bambara Morgan Creaves as Rordy Shawn Cuddy as Celia Joseph Drelich as Clavius (original airing) Taichi Erskine as Boy Alex Fernandez as Aemon Julia Fletcher as Benzenhurst Kelly Gabriel as Lindze Christianne Hauber as Principal Lorna Mark Mars as Sinnah Matt K. Matt Manfredi Peter Chung Stars Charlize Theron Frances McDormand Sophie Okonedo See production, box office & company info Watch on Cinemax with Prime Video Channels More watch options Add to Watchlist Added by 74. Related: Why The 2005 Aeon Flux Movie Bombed: What Went Wrong Doing justice to the source material requires a cast of diverse and talented actors. But is this perfect life hiding a perfect lie Aeon is on the front lines of a rebellion that will reveal a world of secrets. The actors must be able to not only step into this surreal universe that Peter Chung has created but also to inhabit one or several of its weird denizens. In this futuristic sci-fi thriller set 400 years in the future, Charlize Theron stars as Aeon Flux, the top underground operative at war with the totalitarian regime governing what appears to be a perfect society. Still, even with an unflattering black dye-job ’do, Charlize does at least look scrumptious.Properly casting the new Aeon Flux reboot entails an intimate familiarity with the source material, which is a series of artworks telling ambiguously interconnected stories about love, sex, espionage, political intrigue, biotechnology, and spirituality. ![]() With a deft, daft touch, this might have been Barbarella for the New Millennium, but it becomes hung up on solemnity as if all its wittering about freedom, oppression and cloning (as usual, completely misrepresented by a scientifically illiterate script) really meant something. But as she goes deeper into her mission, Aeon. Karyn Kusama, who directed Girlfight, is a shade less insistent on shots of the heroine’s tightly-trussed secondary sexual characteristics than a male sleaze-hack might have been, but still doesn’t have much to bring to the party. Charlize Theron stars as Aeon Flux, a secret agent/assassin/warrior whose mission is to bring down the regime. Aeon Flux 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 original ’toons all had Aeon sneaking into things, and a suitably svelte Theron does all the usual business: dangling from silk streamers attached to a flying saucer, escaping from a cell thanks to a clever pile of busy ball bearings, abseiling into a liquid memory bank, chick-fu one-on-one with a former comrade (Sophie Okenodo) who has extra hands for feet, and performing elegant gymnastic moves while brutally slaughtering five helmeted guards. ![]() It dresses up leftover ideas from Orwell and Huxley with tame action-movie licks, absurd costumes (if anyone’s frock deserves censure, it’s the bizarro number Pete Postlethwaite gets strapped into), enough familiar-face-from-British-telly supporting actors to suggest the filmmakers have borrowed the casting director from Holby City and a concrete-campus aesthetic that makes humanity’s futuristic last redoubt seem like a civic centre in Milton Keynes circa 1968. How else to explain Halle Berry’s career path from Monster’s Ball to Catwoman, and now Charlize Theron’s from Monster to this? Based on a series of stylish cartoon fillers aired on MTV, in which the joke was that the super-competent heroine was always getting killed, Aeon Flux is daffy dystopian science-fiction (like the recent Equilibrium). When a woman wins Best Actress, she is more likely to get a message from her mother saying she looked frumpy in that dress and a half-apologetic “how about doing something in a leotard?” suggestion from her agent. When a man wins the best actor Academy Award, he comes home to find his answerphone full of A-list offers and his hallway snowed under with freshly couriered hot scripts. ![]()
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