12 Movies You Didn’t Realise Were Originally TV Shows

7. †on Flux

Probably a highly contentious suggestion, but if you weren't a fan of the MTV series, you might not realise that the Charlize Theron-starring †on Flux from 2005 was ever a television show. †on Flux debuted in the early '90s on MTV when the network began moving away from strictly being a showcase for music videos. It caught on as something of a cult hit, a sort of edgy, unique animated show about a secret agent and assassin set in a bleak future. It was never a smash, however, and outside of its own fanbase wasn't widely known at the time, but over the years, it did become more recognised. Enough, at least, that the series, created by Peter Chung, who had worked in the 1980s as a storyboard artist on The Transformers animated series, and on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, was optioned for a big screen, live action adaptation. Flux was marketed heavily based on the look of the film (with the studio no doubt hoping for another Matrix-style success) and it's star, Theron, who held all sorts of promise after her turn in 2003's Monster. Here you had a legit actress in a big sci-fi vehicle - and it bombed, failing to make back its modest $62 million budget. Not only that, creator Chung disavowed the film, saying that he was "humiliated" by it. Flux has faded back into obscurity since, with nothing new of note coming from the franchise since a DVD release and some comics in the mid-aughts.