Andrew Garfield, Daisy Edgar-Jones to Reunite in Movie "Voyagers"

Andrew Garfield and Daisy Edgar-Jones are set to reunite in “Voyagers”, a biopic around the romantic relationship between an astronomer and “Contact” author Carl Sagan and documentary producer and director Ann Druyan.

The movie is produced by Ben Browning for FilmNation Entertainment, Lynda Obst, who guided “Contact” to the big screen, and Druyan herself. FilmNation Entertainment is set to launch global sales at the upcoming Cannes Market.

“Voyagers” unfolds in 1977 as NASA prepared to launch humanity’s first interstellar probes. 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. But what starts out as race-against-the-clock mission blossoms into a love story between Sagan and Druyan.

Sebastián Lelio, the Oscar-winning auteur behind “A Fantastic Woman,” will direct the movie.

FilmNation Entertainment paired Druyan, who married Sagan in 1981, with screenwriters Lelio and Jessica Goldberg. They then wrote the original screenplay based on interviews with Druyan and many others who worked on the Golden Record project.

Druyan and Sagan would go on to write “Cosmos,” an influential PBS series covering a vast range of scientific topics. Sagan died in 1996.

Garfield 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.