Here’s an odd pairing.
Filmmaker Sebastián Lelio will team up with actors Andrew Garfield and Daisy Edgar-Jones for a biopic of celebrated astronomer Carl Sagan.
“Voyagers” will tackle the real-life love story of Sagan and Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker Ann Druyan. Global sales of the upcoming project will be featured at the Cannes film market later this month.
The film is set in 1977 as NASA is preparing to launch humanity’s first interstellar probes, the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 missions. A team, led by Sagan, sets out to create a message to accompany them: the Golden Record, a group of images and sounds meant to express the essence of humanity and act as a first-contact greeting for any galactic lifeform the probes might reach. But what starts out as a race-against-the-clock mission becomes an epic, unexpected love story between Sagan and his collaborator Druyan.
Lelio has been very prolific with “Gloria,” “A Fantastic Woman,” “Disobedience,” “Gloria Bell” and “The Wonder” all premiering at marquee film festivals these last ten years.