Voyagers, the romantic drama on the connection between NASA’s Carl Sagan and filmmaker Ann Druyan, has discovered its leads. Daisy Edgar-Jones (Regular Folks) will star alongside Andrew Garfield (Tick, Tick… Growth!) within the biopic. In line with Selection, Garfield will star as Sagan, with Edgar-Jones enjoying Druyan. Voyagers marks the second collaboration between Garfield and Edgar-Jones. Each co-starred within the crime miniseries, Underneath the Banner of Heaven.
Who’s Concerned with Voyagers?
Sebastián Lelio, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind 2017’s A Improbable Lady, will direct Voyagers from a screenplay he co-wrote with Jessica Goldberg. Lelio and Goldberg labored immediately with Druyan to craft the script, primarily based on interviews performed with Druyan and those that labored on the Golden Report venture. The movie will probably be produced by Druyan, Lynda Obst, and Ben Browning for FilmNation Leisure. Moreover, Voyagers will launch international gross sales on the upcoming Cannes Market.
“Voyagers unfolds in 1977 as NASA ready to launch humanity’s first interstellar probes,” the synopsis reads. “A group led by Sagan units out to create a message to accompany them, often known as the Golden Report, which included music and pictures, for attainable alien civilizations. However what begins out as a race-against-the-clock mission blossoms right into a love story between Sagan and Druyan.”
Garfield has not starred in a film since 2021’s Spider-Man: No Method Residence, the place he reprised his position as Peter Parker from The Superb Spider-Man franchise. In that very same 12 months, Garfield appeared in The Eyes of Tammy Faye and Tick, Tick… Growth!, and the latter resulted in an Oscar nomination for Finest Actor.
Edgar-Jones is coming off the success of final 12 months’s The place the Crawdads Sing, which grossed over $140 million worldwide. The Regular Folks actress was not too long ago forged in Twisters, the sequel to the 1996 catastrophe film starring Invoice Pullman and Helen Hunt.