The actress Daisy Edgar-Jones will play Ann Druyan, Sagan’s wife, in the film directed by the Chilean Sebastián Lelio.
Andrew Garfield and Daisy Edgar-Jones will star voyagersa biopic of the director Sebastian Lelio about the real-life love story of the famous astronomer Carl Sagan and Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker Ann Druyan.
The film is set in 1977 as NASA prepares 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 go with them: the Golden Record, a group of sights and sounds meant to express the essence of humanity and act as a first contact greeting for whatever galactic life forms the probes might reach. But what begins as a mission to race against time turns into an epic and unexpected love story between Sagan and his collaborator Druyan.
Lelio and Jessica Goldberg co-wrote the script for Voyagers based on interviews with Druyan and others who worked on the Golden Record project.
“As a nine-year-old boy growing up during the Chilean dictatorship, Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan’s television series Cosmos had a profound impact on me, igniting my fascination with life’s biggest questions and mysteries,” said Lelio. it’s a statement.
“It is a dream to make a film about the Gold Record and, within it, the inspiring love story between Carl and Ann. I am delighted that Andrew Garfield and Daisy Edgar-Jones are at the center of this epic romance that unfolds against the infinite backdrop of space and time.”
Garfield and Edgar-Jones co-starred in the FX limited series (available on Star+) Under the Banner of Heavenfor which Garfield earned his first Emmy Award nomination and Edgar-Jones his second Golden Globe Award nomination.
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