Back in the early 90’s a cartoon appeared that, while clearly having been inspired by Anime, was actually out of the US. MTV in fact. It was Aeon Flux and it was one of the strangest combinations of futuristic nihilism, violence and sex to come to TV. It was also one of the coolest. From the sometimes obscene amounts of violence and near-nudity, to the fact that Aeon dies at the end of half the stories, it was certainly unique for cartoons of the era.

I heard a while ago that a game was in the making, and today I came across not only a game, but also a movie! Due at the end of 2005, it’s got Charlize Theron in the role of Aeon and Marton Csokas as Trevor. The official site has a trailer for the game, but not for the movie yet and the movie. Go watch the trailer, it follows the path of the opening scene of the original pilot of Aeon Flux, where she enters a Breen installation and kills about a million soldiers. From the looks of things they’ve kept the violence at about the same level as the show, but Aeon is wearing more clothes. It’s a bit of a telling statement really on what society considers to be worse - sex or violence?? There’s not too much info there on the movie, but there’s a timeline of the story which includes a few photos which seem to be from the movie. Also, The Film Asylum has a bunch of shots from the movie.

As for the game it’s being made by Terminal Reality, who don’t have a huge cataloge of games, but they did make BloodRayne, which suggests good things to my mind. The publisher seems to be Majesco Games who were also invloved in BloodRayne. IGN has a review of the preview at E3 & it’s all positive. They also have a few videos to watch, 2 of gameplay & the trailer video. They say it’ll be out in Sept 2005, but that’s probably in the US. As to whether we get it down here at the same time is anyone’s guess, but probably not.

Just in case you hadn’t noticed, I can’t wait for this to come out! Peter Chung is involved in the development of both the movie & the game, which bodes well for the accuracy of the storyline as well as the look & feel. Also, according to Majesco, Charlize Theron will be providing the voice for the game Aeon as well as the movie, which will add some nice continuity. All they need now are cameos by Denise Poirier & John Lee.