Peter Chung vs. Grant Morrison...

Oh, and what happened to the thread above me? Matt get told to pull it or something?

Syra, what thread above you? I haven't been back here much lately, but I'd never have pull a thread. Was there more written here? The 'invisible comic' sounds interesting. I'd love to see what Peter thinks of it, you know I think he has a great influence on the industry. Did you notice after 'his' Alexander came the movie?

It was an update on the AF movie, courtesy Matt Rebholz. Links to articles and whatnot.

I believe this board crashed at some point; I was here the other week and the 'new answers' page wouldn't load properly. Barb, did you notice anything?

Forgot to mention: The Matrix borrowed liberally from The Invisibles. The 'magic mirror' scene, for one, is almost a direct rip.

Yeah, my message just seemed to disappear. I was surprised that no one commented on it... made me think that the old fanbase was truly dead, just in time for the new one to come in on Charlise's heels.

Anyway, it looks like the movie is going in a potentially interesting direction, if not the one its predecessors created.

Oh, by the way... got this from the Wikipedia...

"Peter Chung, aka Peter Chiung, (born 1961 in Seoul, South Korea) is a Korean-American animator. He was the creator of Æon Flux and character and settings designer for Reign and Matriculated from The Animatrix. He was also likely the voiceover editor for Jackie Chan's Rumble in the Bronx."

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Thanks, Matt. I'll know not to rely on Wikipedia for obscure biographical information.

Also, I appreciated your posting the set report from Dark Horizons. I recently visited the set in Berlin and finally met Charlize Theron and Marton Csokas as they were filming.

Stay tuned...

'met Charlize Theron and Marton Csokas while they were filming' ! Peter, how did you feel about how they were doing? I would think the actors were complimented to see you. I'm hoping there was a mind meld.

What potentially interesting direction were you talking about Matt? Btw; the page wouldn't load for me either, so I wrote the guys who run this board and I guess they fixed it, but some things were lost?

www.darkhorizons.com/news04/aeon1.php

is one of the two links Matt had posted.
(Reading it myself, I thought it made the film sound pretty good.)

Hey, this sounds like the movie might be pretty good. It's also nearly finished, in its 54th day of a 62day shoot, and that was as of this article. They seem to be making an effort at keeping the sets in keeping with the original concept of the series.

And here's that photo of Aeon, Barb. Sorry for the delay in my response.

I suppose it's natural that they couldn't recreate Aeon's particular hairstyle (and the results might even have been pretty silly, I think), but I rather like the new one. It still captures a certain feel. As for her costume, I still feel that Aeon is a leather girl. I hope they use some later...

You know what, I've been thinking alot about this and you know what, if the suits want to do something about it and play with their toy on their own terms for a change, why not let 'em!

It doesn't even mean that this is the end of anything - quite more probably the opposite indeed (and, after all, who knows because I don't even know shit, here, admittedly). After all, you got these suits - to all appearances - treating this thing fkn. serious; it'd all be another story though if these guys were a;ll just hurling yet another lossleader project. But this is not the case: you have a multimillion dollar budge just for the talent - the lead an oscar winner for a critically acclaimed indie film performance about an obsessive lesbo murderess for crying out fkn. LOUD GOD DAMN IT - I mean, I just guess I've got to admit that with this thing here so far we ain't got something to sneeze at and what kind of fool you think I would want to look like if indeed they pull this off and do something decent for a change! I mean, you KNOW I'm a fool but still....

I mean, y'know - granted - lol but, yeah! Lots of luck then, I'm a sport, let's see what happens. Watch 'em go and fuck it - happy new years to everybody too

But: Having said that -- You know and I know we ALL know that it had BETTER BE THAT FUCKING GOOD, okay okay ?

Shit is fkn on, motherfuckers !!

Nice to see Charlize saying 'the bottom line it's a love story' because that love story is such a compelling one. Maybe this movie will have what it takes to make it to the Spike tv channel but that particular complex brand of love story is what was so compelling about the series. To me anyway.

Here's hoping Aeon does not go postmortem......again.

I don't know if anyone realizes it but the release date for the movie is July 2005. There's a few pics on this site of AF as well.

http://www.thezreview.co.uk/comingsoon/a/aeonflux.htm

I'm excited to hear that the script is more faceted than the MTV.com reports implied! Teaches me to get my movie info from, well, mtv.

Wow, more pics! Thanks Barb.

The more I see Charlize in the role, the more I think she can look the part. I'm starting to like the costume too, looks good against all that Breen concrete. I just hope she can do the voice and the acting, as well.

I suppose there's a good chance will see some animated Aeon in this film, as in CG.

I'm just wondering if we can expect them to animate Aeon's movements, particuarly her acrobatics, in a way that would be reminiscent of the original's style - If they do, I hope they make it look as beautiful/scary as Aeon's 'agile madness' has tended to look.

Man, I'd LOVE to think we'll see some animation in this film. At least adding animation of AF to the beginning or end of this movie?
I still say a movie where Peter, falling asleep at his drawingboad, then move into animation, would be cool. Hey, artists dream in color.

I'd prefer that they stick to one medium... I've tended to hate those animated-to-live action transitions a la Tank Girl (though that worked, maybe, because of the tone of the movie... and the animation was excellent). But I'm guessing that, like a lot of action movies these days, they'll use a little CG to grease the wheels of some of the action sequences. I think that'd be fine, even preferrable, to get the surreal look of Aeon's movements. But no 2D, please.

I was actually referring to an entirely new movie I wish they'd make, but as for the Charlize/AF one think of the Pink Panther, great intro animation.

Heh, fuckin good better be, right. Not to say that anything with a crazy amout of money behind it has choked itself into one given genra, clique, or just a 3 hour movie with a pretty backround, and not that I've got a deepset impression that mtv sold out long ago and would have no regards to degrading their spotty vaults...
Charlize theoron though, hmm. I heard about the human eating plants. Hope it's good. Glad the forums back up by the way.

I have a feeling we won't be seeing any 2D animation in this film (I hope I'm wrong). Of course, every action/sci-fi movie these days has CGI, so I bet we'll see some of that... I heard that the famous "Fly-catching eyelash" opening is going to be in the movie as well. That could be pretty cool if they take some parts directly from the show, and convert them into live-action.

It would be great to see some digital animation based off of the traditional Aeon series. Something for the hardcores?