Andrew Garfield | photo credit: Reuters
Oscar-winning director Sebastian Lelio will direct Andrew Garfield and Daisy Edgar-Jones in the upcoming Voyager, The film revolves around the love story between Astronomer and Contact Author Carl Sagan and documentary filmmaker and director Ann Druyan.
The feature is produced by Ben Browning for Film Nation Entertainment, Linda Obst, who directed Contact on the big screen, and for Druyan himself. According to Variety, Voyager Set in 1977 as NASA prepares to launch humanity’s first interstellar probe. A team led by Sagan set out to create a message to accompany them, known as the Golden Record, which included music and images for potential alien civilizations. Eventually love blossomed between the two.
FilmNation Entertainment paired Druyan, who married Sagan in 1981, with screenwriters Lelio and Jessica Goldberg. He then wrote the original screenplay based on interviews with Druyan and several others who worked on the Golden Record project. Sagan died in 1996.
“Growing Up as a Nine-Year-Old Boy During the Chilean Dictatorship,” Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan’s TV Series cosmos It had a profound effect on me, igniting my fascination with life’s biggest questions and mysteries,” said Lelio. “Creating a film about the golden record and the inspiring love story between Carl and Ann within it is a dream. . I’m thrilled that Andrew Garfield and Daisy Edgar-Jones will be at the center of this epic romance set against the infinite backdrop of space and time.