History Trivia / AeonFlux

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/CryoInteractive was set to make a game based on the animated series for the [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation [=PlayStation=] 1]], but it was never officially released. However, it was reformulated into a game called ''Pax Corpus'' that was stripped of any references to the series.

** Creator/CharlizeTheron [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/charlize-theron-interview-old-guard-sequel-producing-doctor-strange-1235276201/ realized]] mid-filming that the film was terrible and was so afraid of it [[StarDerailingRole killing her career]] that she accepted the role of Rita on ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' so she could remain in the public eye.

* DisownedAdaptation: Peter Chung was very, ''very'' unhappy with the movie. [[spoiler:Considering [=Æ=]eon is revealed to be a clone of the original Trevor Goodchild's wife, Chung insisted that this version is not the real [=Æ=]eon is any sense of the word.]]

* TheWikiRule: [[http://aeonflux.wikia.com/wiki/Aeon_Flux_Wiki The Aeon Flux Wiki]].

* LifeImitatesArt: In one episode, a woman who had a chunk of her spine shot out by a gun turret was able to have screaming orgasms by having the remaining nerves dangling from the gap stimulated with surgical tools. In what's probably the weirdest example of this ever, a few years later some doctors tried this in Real Life & found it actually works.

* AccidentallyCorrectWriting: In one episode, a woman who had a chunk of her spine shot out by a gun turret was able to have screaming orgasms by having the remaining nerves dangling from the gap stimulated with surgical tools. A few years later some doctors tried this in Real Life & found it actually works.

* CreatorBacklash: Charlize Theron [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/charlize-theron-interview-old-guard-sequel-producing-doctor-strange-1235276201/ claimed in an interview]] that after filming was done, she immediately knew the film was terrible and was so afraid of it being a StarDerailingRole for her that she accepted a role on ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' immediately after.

* OldShame: The film managed to be this for both show creator Peter Chung and director Karyn Kusama (who had the film taken away from her in post-production).

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/CryoInteractive was set to make a game based on the animated series for the [=PlayStation=] 1, but it was never officially released. However, it was reformulated into a game called ''Pax Corpus'' that was stripped of any references to the series.

* WriterRevolt: According to Peter Chung, ''[=Æ=]on Flux'' was first conceived out of his frustration with the creative limitations held over him while working on the pilot for ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}''.

* DisownedAdaptation: Peter Chung was very, ''very'' unhappy with the movie. [[spoiler:Considering Aeon is revealed to be a clone of the original Trevor Goodchild's wife, Chung insisted that this version is not the real Aeon is any sense of the word.]]

* NotScreenedForCritics: Peter Chung once claimed to have felt "helpless, humiliated, and sad" upon seeing the film adaptation of his work. Apparently, this movie wasn't even screened for ''him'' (his sole allowed contribution was a single hour-and-a-half meeting with the people writing/directing it).

* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $62 million. Box office, $52,304,001.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/CryoInteractive was set to make a game based on the animated series for the [=PlayStation=] 1, but it was never officially released. However, it was reformulated into a game called ''VideoGame/PaxCorpus'' that was stripped of any references to the series.

* RefittedForSequel: The PS1 game that eventually became ''Pax Corpus'' would have featured people being repeatedly resurrected through cloning as a plot point.

* DisownedAdaptation: Peter Chung was very, ''very'' unhappy with the movie. [[spoiler:Considering Aeon is revealed to be a clone of the original Trevor Goodchild's wife, Chung insisted that this version is not the real Aeon is any sense of the word.]

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/CryoInteractive was set to make a game based on the animated series for the [=PlayStation=] 1, but it was never officially released. However, it was reformulated into a game called ''Pax Corpus'' that was stripped of any references to the series.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Cryo Interactive was set to make a game based on the animated series for the Playstation One, but it was never officially released. However, it was reformulated into a game called ''Pax Corpus'' that was stripped of any references to the series.

* DisownedAdaptation: Peter Chung was very, very unhappy with the movie.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Animator Takeshi Koike, best known for his animation work on Afro Samurai's Pilot, and director of the likes of ''Anime/RedLine'' and the ''Anime/LupinTheThird'' [[Anime/GravestoneOfDaisukeJigen animated]] [[Anime/GoemonIshikawasSprayOfBlood movie]] [[Anime/FujikoMinesLie trilogy]], was a key animator in this series.