He most recently starred opposite Edgar-Jones in FX’s “Under the Banner of Heaven”, which earned him his first Emmy Award nomination and Edgar-Jones her second Golden Globe award nomination. Garfield, an Oscar nominee for “Hacksaw Ridge” and “Tick Tick…Boom!,” is currently in production on John Crowley’s “We Live in Time,” in which he stars alongside Pugh.

His other credits include “Gloria Bell” with Julianne Moore, which was an English-language remake of Lelio’s “Gloria.” Lelio most recently co-wrote and directed “The Wonder,” starring Florence Pugh. 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.” “It is a dream to make a movie about the Golden Record and, within it, the inspiring love story between Carl and Ann. “As a nine-year-old boy growing up during Chile’s dictatorship, Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan’s TV series ‘Cosmos’ had a profound impact on me, igniting my fascination with life’s biggest questions and mysteries,” Lelio said. They then wrote the original screenplay based on interviews with Druyan and many others who worked on the Golden Record project.ĭruyan and Sagan would go on to write “Cosmos,” an influential PBS series covering a vast range of scientific topics. FilmNation Entertianment paired Druyan, who married Sagan in 1981, with screenwriters Lelio and Jessica Goldberg. But what starts out as a race-against-the-clock mission blossoms into a love story between Sagan and Druyan. A team led by Sagan sets out to create a message to accompany them, known as the Golden Record, which included music and images, for possible alien civilizations. “Voyagers” unfolds in 1977 as NASA prepared to launch humanity’s first interstellar probes. FilmNation Entertainment is set to launch global sales at the upcoming Cannes Market The feature is produced by Ben Browning for FilmNation Entertainment, Lynda Obst, who guided “Contact” to the big screen, and Druyan herself. Sebastián Lelio, the Oscar-winning auteur behind “A Fantastic Woman,” will direct Andrew Garfield and Daisy Edgar-Jones in “Voyagers,” the story of the romantic relationship between astronomer and “Contact” author Carl Sagan and documentary producer and director Ann Druyan.

Cosmos by carl sagan