Another Comic Con Report

Just found this at aint-it-cool. Remember this is a fanboy talking so don't take his attitude too seriously. Fanboys have to be snarky so the others will think they're cool instead of geeks. But it does give us good details about the panel so that's why I'm posting it.

Again there's no pic included so here's Trevor





Dig Dug's Opinion of AEON FLUX at Comic Con

The director of the movie, producer (who also produced all three Terminators, Aliens, Abyss, and others), the creator of the anime, lead actress Charlize Theron and actor Marton Czokas who plays 'bad guy' Trevor Goodchild. While I was happy to see that the creator of the fairly popular series/shorts from MTV is involved, the stuff we saw didn't do too much for me. While I'm not a huge fan of the original anime, I loved the visual style. In that aspect, it looks like they are doing some things right.

The 'story' of the film is it's the far future (something like 400 years) in a world that is controlled be a questionable 'government,' and common folk disappear without a reason. Theron's character, Aeon Flux, is an assassin from an underground rebellion or something who is commissioned to kill the leader (actor Czokas). That's the basic story as explained today.

They showed a reel of behind the scenes stuff that featured tons of wire effects work, some nice looking sets, but basically a typical Hollywood 'shoot 'em up.' There was one great scene that I thought totally captured the spirit of the series, which gives this movie hope. It featured Aeon Flux and her partner or something (played by Sophie Okenedo) doing all of these great acrobatic jumps, and flips and stuff through a huge garden to get to a building. When Okenedo steps on the grass, she realizes the blades of the grass are actual blades that cut through her feet like needles. Aeon does a mid-air flip, and before landing on grass does a sort of splits between some rocks and holds herself in the kind of lean that has her face centimeters from the grass. As she looks at the grass and realizes she's close to piercing her face, the grace sort of 'stretches' toward her, as if it wants to pierce her. It felt VERY much like the series, and it makes me think this thing might have hope. Theron looks more than capable, has really cool hair like the original Aeon Flux, and the sets look good. But the plot seems more of the same, and I think this could go either way. We also got to see the trailer coming out soon (maybe in the next week or two?).


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