If an action-sci-fi movie starring Charlize Theron and directed by Karyn Kusama was announced today, anticipation among movie geeks would likely skyrocket. Imagine, the pugnacious action star from Mad Max: Fury Road and Atomic Blonde cooking something up with the director of Girlfight, Jennifer’s Body, and Destroyer! But when this exact pairing arrived 20 years ago, it received miserable reviews and negligible box office upon release on Dec. 2, 2005. The live-action version ofAeon Flux is remembered less as a dream-team pairing and more as a misbegotten flop. That is, if it’s remembered at all. Aeon Flux does deserve some attention, though — and not just as a disaster doomed by studio interference. It’s also a movie with outsized (if accidental) influence on the careers it was supposed to

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