The crew gained permission to film in several locations that had never allowed such access before, including the Treptow Crematorium, the Adlershof Trudelturm and Windkanal wind tunnel facility, and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt ("House of the World's Cultures"). Berlin had several locations that fit into the organic yet structured world of Æon Flux. After several cities were scouted, Berlin and Potsdam in Germany were chosen for filming. The producers rejected the idea because Brasília lacked the infrastructure and technical expertise to support a major film production. Kusama had originally suggested filming in Brasília, the capital of Brazil, because the 20th-century modern architecture of that city fit with her vision of Bregna. She had previously worked with Kusama in Girlfight. In the early stages of production, actress Michelle Rodriguez was considered for the part of Æon. The screenplay was written by Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi based on the animated TV series by Peter Chung. In addition, Nikolai Kinski and Yangzom Brauen appear in the roles of Claudius and Inari, respectively. The dirigible crashes into the city wall, breaking it down to reveal the surrounding land for the first time in centuries. She discovers that he preserved Katherine's DNA for years, although an earlier Oren clone had ordered it to be destroyed so "Katherine" could not influence any Trevors. There she meets Keeper, the old man who monitors everything. Æon goes to destroy the Relical, the dirigible that stores the DNA for cloning. Æon convinces the other Monicans tracking her, including her friend Sithandra, to ignore the Handler and to help her kill Oren and his men. Æon then goes against both Oren and her former allies, who want to kill Trevor and also kill her for not killing Trevor. Oren has had them all killed to maintain the Goodchild reign. In a confrontation with Trevor and Æon, Oren reveals that nature has corrected the infertility problem and that some women are becoming pregnant without intervention by scientists. He ordered all of Trevor's research to be destroyed. However, in order to keep the dynasty of Goodchild clones in power, Trevor's brother, Oren, had Una killed along with the other members of the fertile experimental group. Una was one of Trevor's most successful experiments part of a group of clones that proved to be fertile, with Una having been pregnant when she was killed. Æon learns that she is a clone of the original Trevor's wife Katherine and that she is the first "Katherine" clone in over 400 years. His preceding clones had all worked on this problem. Trevor's ongoing experiments were attempts to reverse the infertility. Cloning was required because the antidote to the virus made humans infertile. With the dead constantly being reborn as new individuals and bearing partial memories of their previous lives, their troubling dreams have increased. Everyone in Bregna is revealed to be a clone, grown from recycled DNA. Æon questions the origins of everyone in Bregna and in particular, her personal connection to Trevor. 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 a cabal of council members working towards a coup d'état, unrelated to the goals of the Monicans. After a mission to destroy a surveillance station, Æon comes home to find her sister Una has been mistaken for a Monican and killed. Although Bregna is largely an idyllic place in the destroyed Earth, people routinely disappear and the population is plagued by nightmares.Ī 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. In 2011, a deadly pathogenic virus killed 99 percent of the Earth's population, forcing the survivors to regroup and scatter across the Earth.įour centuries later, in 2415, the remaining five million humans inhabit Bregna, a dystopian walled futuristic city-state, which is ruled by a congress of scientists. The film was poorly received by critics and grossed only $52.3 million against a production budget of $55–62 million, making it a box-office bomb. The film was released on December 2, 2005, by Paramount Pictures in the United States. It stars Charlize Theron as the title character, Marton Csokas, Jonny Lee Miller, Sophie Okonedo, Pete Postlethwaite, and Frances McDormand. The film was produced by MTV Films, Lakeshore Entertainment, Babelsberg Film Studio and Valhalla Motion Pictures. 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. Æon Flux is a 2005 American science fiction action film based on the animated science fiction action television series of the same name created by Peter Chung, which aired on MTV from 1991 to 1995.
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