Karyn Kusama talks Aeon Flux movie !

Kusama said, that she was attracted to the movie because of its strong central character (a woman warrior, 400 years in the future, who leads a rebellion against an oppressive government), and that she's a long time Sci Fi fan.

"Aeon Flux is such an interesting kind of flawed and ambiguous heroine in that she behaves sort of irrationally at times, or she behaves sort of from a place of just sort of instinct or animus And I think that's really interesting. I've always actually loved science fiction, and my interest in "Girlfight" was an interest in trying out a social-realist kind of movie within a contemporary setting. I think all movies end up being a kind of a form of experiment in that you're always trying to do something new, for yourself and hopefully for the genre. So I thought there was something in Aeon Flux that was particularly fresh and had the opportunity also to be really, really beautiful: ... visually beautiful and sort of bracing to look at and to interpret on a narrative level. I feel like that's something that's sort of missing from a lot of sci fi recently. It's sort of become so much about a kind of gray, dark apocalypse. And we have the opportunity to tell a story that's quite a bit brighter on the outside and perhaps even darker on the inside."

Charlize Theron plays the title role of "Aeon Flux," the top operative in the underground "Monican" rebellion, led by the Handler. When Aeon is sent on a mission to kill the government's leader, she uncovers a world of secrets, which makes her question everything she thought she knew.

"For me what's interesting is that ... in "Monster" she could play someone who had a tremendous amount of pride and humiliation and violence and tenderness in herself at the same time. And I found it to be her most committed and honest performance I think that I'd ever seen. And that commitment to ambiguity, to some degree, is why I think she's perfect for this role. That she can sort of play with the gray area and not be always on this straight trajectory is part of what ... I hope ... interests her about the character, and I know it interests me about the character."

"Aeon Flux" is in production right now, and scheduled for a 2005 release.

Source: SCI FI Wire