![]() ![]() Yet before being co-opted for such noxious vehicles as the infamous Jud Süss, Babelsberg was home to such classics of the Twenties and Thirties as Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, Metropolis and The Blue Angel. Built in 1917 as the UFA (Universum Film Aktien Gesellschaft) Studios, the studio really is where Joseph Goebbels shot his notorious propaganda films for the Führer. The production was based at the the Babelsberg Studios at Potsdam, southwest of Berlin. The opening montage of the supposedly ‘perfect society’ gives a glimpse of many of the locations seen throughout the film. ![]() Life in the city, though, is something of a gilded cage, challenged by an underground resistance group called Monicans.įirst choice to represent the city of ‘Bregna’ was Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, but ultimately the selection of Berlin’s ultra-design-conscious architecture is perfect – a startling array of chapels, a crematorium, a prestigious art museum, a foreign embassy and even a 21st Century state-of-the-art animal shelter. In the year 2415, after a disease has wiped out most of the human race, the Earth’s last city, Bregna, is protected by wall from the outside world and ruled over by Trevor Goodchild ( Marton Csokas), a descendant of the person who brought the mysterious infection under some sort of control. For now, it remains to be seen whether or not Jeff Davis and MTV Entertainment Studios are up to the task of doing justice to Peter Chung’s animated masterpiece, as this practically entails revolutionizing the way animation is adapted into live-action content.Peter Chung, creator of the original MTV animated series, distanced himself from the big-screen transfer, though it’s hard to see how his near-silent, semi-abstract vignettes could have been turned into a feature film without dialogue and a solid backstory. Without the creative and logistical difficulties of single-film production, which reportedly plagued the 2005 Aeon Flux movie, the franchise could finally break out of the shadow of the Wachowski sisters, who actually count Aeon Fluxas one of their inspirations for creating The Matrix and its sequels, and even enlisted Chung to produce an episode of The Animatrix. The series format, combined with Davis’ experience in rebooting cult material, could prove to be a much more conducive arena for properly fleshing out Peter Chung’s Aeon Flux in a live-action setting – a puzzle that hasn’t been solved since the animated series ended 26 years ago. However, Teen Wolf’s Jeff Davis has been confirmed to be the showrunner for the new Aeon Flux, which will be a series that will stream on Paramount+. The Aeon Flux reboot doesn’t have a release date just yet. ![]() Set in the year 7698, this bizarre universe is home to Aeon Flux, a spy from the anarchist city of Monica, and her lover and arch-enemy Trevor Goodchild, the technocratic dictator of the Orwellian city-state of Bregna. In contrast to the Aeon Flux movie’s straightforward themes, Peter Chung’s original animated series has a largely ambiguous dystopian plot, which is told through the lenses of BDSM, erotic fetishism, biotechnology, gnosticism, horror, and psychedelia – and animated in a style that, according to Peter Chung, was influenced by Hergé, Moebius, and German Expressionist painters. These movies were heavily influenced by 1999’s The Matrix, the highly successful Wachowski sisters film which popularized dystopian sci-fi themes in mainstream turn-of-the-century cinema. Aeon Flux shares its visual style and political themes with several other dystopian sci-fi movies released in the same era, such as Ultraviolet and Equilibrium. In the film, the titular character Aeon Flux is part of a rebel group called the Monicans, who frees the people of Bregna from the Goodchild regime, which turns out to be lying about everything to its people in order to maintain power and control. ![]()
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