MTV is getting back into business with Aeon Flux. The network is developing a live-action reboot of the animated series that originally ran on MTV for three seasons in the 1990s. Teen Wolf showrunner Jeff Davis is on board to write the script and executive produce the drama along with The Walking Dead’s Gale Anne Hurd.
Hurd wasn’t attached to the original series but served as a producer on the 2005 live-action adaptation that starred Charlize Theron. The live-action series is set in a future dystopian state and revolves around a young assassin who teams with a group of biohacking rebels to save humanity as she becomes the hero known as Aeon Flux.
The original animated series aired on MTV in 1991 as a six-part sequence of shorts that was featured in its Liquid Television experimental animation series. The show returned in 1992 with five individual short-form episodes and again in 1995 as a 10-episode half-hour series, all of them animated. The series was originally created by animator Peter Chung.
The live-action film version was produced on a budget of $62 million but proved to be a box office bomb when it only grossed $52.2 million worldwide. The film also has a low rating of 9% on Rotten Tomatoes.
