Okay, this was a seriously strange cartoon with little to no continuity between episodes. So it's fairly questionable if it can come close to making the leap to live action feature film. It looks like they got a lot of the look down fairly well, and even a bit of Aeon's crazy spider-crawling. Can't say I like the casting job for Trevor, though I may change my mind if we get to hear more from him than the little in the trailer. He doesn't really look right, though.
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I knew absolutely nothing about whatever this was before I saw the trailer a couple weeks ago, and I must say that I'm interested. It looks like a blast and I'm glad to see that Charlize Theron is willing to have a little fun.
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Looks great!! Except for Trevor... He's supposed to be this pale, skinny, blond dude. Why in the name of the gods did they choose Jango Fett?
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Trevor's not Jango Fett. He is, however, Geonosian Archduke Poggle the Lesser. Also, Celeborn.
But no, I don't think he looks right. Hopefully he can act the part better than he looks it. The main thing for me about Aeon Flux (other than style for style's sake) was the complexities of the relationships between Aeon and Trevor.
I doubt it will happen, but I'd really enjoy it if they both die halfway through the movie and it just starts up again with a completely different plot and situation for them to inexplicably be in for the second half, leaving most of the audience scratching their heads. Now that would be faithful to the show.
quote: It makes me wonder if that strange guy near the beginning of the trailer who says "I've waited 400 years for this day" is actually Trevor...
I thought that on my first viewing just because he seemed to have the coloration and the oddly-shouldered outfit. Of course, given the source material there are countless possibilities for him having multiple appearances or changing his appearance during the course of the movie. Hopefully with a disturbing reveal involving sadomasochistic medical procedures, that sort of thing.
I wonder if they'll be re-releasing the old episodes on dvd to go along with the movie...
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Here is some cool information from the Aeon Flux graphic novel that came out around '95:
quote:"The Herodotus File"
Monica and Bregna were once one country called Berognica.
Berognica was a pretty nice place that was a pleasant average of the good aspects of the two states. Then the two were split apart and the memory of Berognica were erased(in Bregna) over a few generations by social engineering.
Monica is "disrecognized space" because Bregna does not recognize them as an independent entity. Monica has a giant blimp called the Relical containing old artifacts from Berognica. There is a group in Monica (The Berognican Reunification Movement) that is trying to rebuild Berognica(a common theme in the series too if you look for it), there are cartographers that are trying to rebuild maps of the original lay of the land, and a terrorist group that tries to messing things up in Bregna and tell people there the truth.
All together the wall splitting Berognica was built quite suddenly and families were displaced and many people couldn't believe that it just "happened".
Then the Breen government started a program to destroy all evidence of Berognica by burning history books, destroying artifacts, brainwashing, etc.
'Trevor Goodchild found out about the Berognican Reunification Movement (BRM) and decides that they are a threat. He has a person compile a list of Monican double agents that he can use to neutralize the BRM, this is where he discovers Aeon for the first time.
He hires her to do a number of terrorist attacks on the BRM. However, as she does them, she does them in such a way that evidence of the truth gets scattered around (i.e. she blows up the "Relical", a Monican blimp with losts of artifacts from Berognica. Of course she does this near Bregna airspace, thus causing the scattering of the artifacts all over Bregna).
After Aeon is done, Trevor decides that she knows too much, so he has a underling propose a plan to kill her. The plan, quite strangely, is to implant a bunch of nanites (microscopic robots) in Trevors seminal duct so he has sex with Aeon and the nanites tear her apart from the inside.
But Aeon was prepared because she had some weird, mean, spiky, device in her uterus(!?!!) that eats the nanites (that part is kinda weak), she blows up a wall then and escapes leaving Trevor standing there naked and confused.
The Relical: The blimp that is filled with relics and media including a large BRM donated collection of Berognican artifacts that would help prove the one-world past to be true. (see Bregna)
The Necropolis (HQ): The Necropolis is where the Monicans bury the dead(it is a REALLY tall, featureless, rectangular building. Very large.) Hidden within the catacombs is the main headquarters of the BRM. The BRM communicates encoded information through funeral announcements and in the necrophilia porno magazine "NecroFile".
BRM meetings are covered under the guise of funerals, the eulogy contains hidden propagandistic messages and instructions.'
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