Aeon Flux (live-action movie)

Production of this film was delayed for a month after Charlize Theron suffered a neck injury while performing a complicated stunt. Since then, her film contracts have a clause barring her from performing her own stunts.

According to the Aug.1, 2005 IMDB, Theron was too embarassed to wear the revealing clothing of the character, and requested more appropriate attire.

Demi Moore was interested in playing the lead role in 1997 before the film was placed in the back burner before actual production had started.

According to director Karyn Kusama, after finishing the movie, the studio fired her, re-cut the movie to a 71 minute long version that tested poorly and then asked her to edit the film again, but not back to her original vision. Huge parts of the plot were left out and even one character's sexuality of being gay was cut out by the studio.

Not long after the film's release the series creator, Peter Chung, was interviewed by a LiveJournal fan community and asked what he thought of the film. Chung described the film '"a travesty" and admitted that he felt "helpless, humiliated and sad" while being at the film's premiere. His main objection towards the film was how the characters and histories of Æon and Trevor were completely reimagined. He went on to state that the film's portrayal of the title character was so different that he doesn’t regard his own Æon Flux to actually be in the film.

The production team originally chose the Brazilian capital of Brasilia as the filming location for the city of Bregna. However, due to logistical problems they ended up using Berlin, Germany as the main filming location where they found most of the required locations for filming, such as a recently built crematorium, and an underground sewer system dating back prior to World War II.

Upon being casted as Aeon Flux, Charlize Theron underwent trampoline training with Cirque du Soleil's Terry Bartlett.

The city of Bregna is shaped like an egg which is meant to be a nod towards creation myths in which planet Earth was born from an egg.

The scene in which Æon catches a fly with her own eyelash is a nod towards the title sequence of the animated “Æon Flux” (1991) TV series.

The wedge boots Charlize Theron wore were actually attached to the pants of her bodysuit. Due to the sets of clothes being difficult and time consuming to make, in order to replicate similar outfits for the background actors, colored pantyhose was used to create a similar look over the high heel shoes.

According to screenwriters Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi, the "Industrial Disease," that killed off the majority of the human population, was caused by genetically-modified food.

The Breen council chamber was furnished with the "Ribbon Chair" originally designed by french modernist designer Pierre Paulin, upholstered in the color red. This piece is a staple of many science fiction set decorations; a day-glow orange color version was often seen on the set of “Star Trek: The Original Series”.

The white knife in which Una uses to chop up her vegetables in her kitchen is a knife product of the Kyocera Corporation; the blade was made of a patented ceramic material instead of steel.