Taglines: The Perfect World Meets The Perfect Assassin.
The year is 2415. 400 years after a virus wiped out half of the world’s population, the people that survived the virus now live in Bregna, a fortified city that is surrounded by a wall isolating the people from the virus infested rest of the world. Living in Bregna City, Aeon Flux, a mysterious female assassin who works for a underground group of rebels led by Handler.
Aeon’s latest assignment is to assassinate Trevor Goodchild, a member of the council that controls Bregna City. When Aeon’s younger sister Una is killed by government agents, Aeon disobeys orders and decides to protect Trevor, and suspects Trevor’s brother Oren and the council members are plotting against Trevor. And when Handler learns Aeon failed the mission, Handler orders Aeon to be eliminated, and Aeon must risk everything as she not only protects Trevor, but also uncovers secrets and answers about her mysterious past and the government and all life in Bregna City itself.
Æon Flux is a 2005 American science fiction spy action film based on the animated science fiction television series of the same name created by Peter Chung. It was directed by Karyn Kusama, written by Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi, and produced by Gale Anne Hurd, David Gale, Gary Lucchesi and Greg Goodman. The film was produced by MTV Films, Lakeshore Entertainment, Babelsberg Film Studio and Valhalla Motion Pictures. It stars Charlize Theron as the title character, Marton Csokas, Jonny Lee Miller, Sophie Okonedo, Pete Postlethwaite, and Frances McDormand.
Paramount chose not to screen Æon Flux for critics prior to its release. The film opened at number two at the U.S. box office, making $12,661,112 in its opening weekend, held off the top spot by Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Æon Flux suffered a decline of 63.97% in box office earnings, going down to number six the following week. On February 9, 2006, it completed its theatrical run, grossing a domestic take of $25,874,337 and a worldwide box office total of $52,304,001,[3] making it a write down and a box office bomb against its $62 million budget.
About the Story
In 2011, a deadly pathogenic virus has killed 99% of the Earth’s population, forcing the survivors to regroup and scatter across the Earth.
404 years later, in late 2415, all of the survivors inhabit Bregna, a walled futuristic city-state, which is ruled by a congress of scientists. Although Bregna is largely an idyllic place in the destroyed Earth, people routinely disappear and the population suffers from nightmares.
A skilled warrior, named Æon Flux, is a member of the Monicans, an underground rebel organization who communicate through telepathy-enabling technology and are led by the Handler. After a mission to destroy a surveillance station, Æon comes home to find her sister Una has been mistaken for a Monican and killed. When Æon is sent on a mission to kill the government’s leader, Trevor Goodchild, she discovers that both she and the Monicans are being manipulated by council members in a secret coup.
Æon questions the origins of everyone in Bregna, and in particular, her personal connection to Trevor. Everyone in Bregna is revealed to be a clone, grown from recycled DNA. With the dead constantly being reborn as new individuals and bearing partial memories of their previous lives, their troubling dreams have increased. Cloning was required because the antidote to the virus made humans infertile. Trevor’s ongoing experiments were attempts to reverse the infertility. His ancestors had also worked on this problem. Æon learns that she is a clone of the original Trevor’s wife Katherine, and is the first “Katherine” clone in over 400 years.
One of Trevor’s experiments, Una, was successful: she had become pregnant. However, in order to stay in power, Trevor’s brother, Oren Goodchild, had her killed along with the other members of the experimental group. He ordered all of Trevor’s research to be destroyed. In a confrontation with Trevor and Æon, Oren reveals that nature has corrected the infertility problem and that some women are becoming pregnant. Oren has had them all killed to maintain the Goodchild reign. Æon then goes against both her former allies, who want to kill Trevor, and Oren.
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Aeon Flux (2005)
Directed by: Karyn Kusama
Starring: Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand, Marton Csokas, Pete Postlethwaite, Johny Lee Miller, Caroline Chikezie, Amelia Warner, Sophie Okonedo, Nikolai Kinski, Yangzom Brauen
Screenplay by: Phil Hay, Matt Manfredi
Production Design by: Andrew McAlpine
Cinematography by: Stuart Dryburgh
Film Editing by: Jeff Gullo, Peter Honess, Plummy Tucker
Costume Design by: Beatrix Aruna Pasztor
Set Decoration by: Bernhard Henrich
Art Direction by: Marco Bittner Rosser, John Frankish, Gary Freeman, Sarah Horton, Andreas Olshausen
Music by: Graeme Revell
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sequences of violence and sexual content.
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: December 2, 2005
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