Travelers, the romantic drama of the relationship between NASA’s Carl Sagan and filmmaker Ann Druyan, has found its leads. Daisy Edgar-Jones (Normal People) stars alongside Andrew Garfield (Tick, Tick… Boom!) in the biopic. According to different, Garfield stars as Sagan, with Edgar-Jones as Druyan. Voyagers marks the second collaboration between Garfield and Edgar-Jones. The two co-starred in the crime series, Under the Banner of Heaven.
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Sebastián Lelio, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind 2017’s A Fantastic Woman, will direct Travelers from a screenplay he co-wrote with Jessica Goldberg. Lelio and Goldberg worked directly with Druyan to create the script, based on interviews conducted with Druyan and those who worked on the Golden Record project. The film will be produced by Druyan, Lynda Obst, and Ben Browning for FilmNation Entertainment. In addition, Voyagers will launch global sales at the upcoming Cannes Market.
“Voyagers opens in 1977 as NASA prepares to launch humanity’s first interstellar probes,” the synopsis reads. “A team led by Sagan set out to create a message to accompany them, known as the Golden Record, which includes music and images, for possible alien civilizations. But what began as a mission race against the clock blossomed into a love story between Sagan and Druyan.
Garfield hasn’t starred in a movie since 2021 Spider-Man: There’s No Home, where he reprized his role as Peter Parker from The Amazing Spider-Man franchise. In the same year, Garfield appeared The Eyes of Tammy Faye and Tick, Tick… Boom!, and the latter resulted in an Oscar nomination for Best Actor.
Edgar-Jones came off the success of last year Where the Crawdads Sing, which grossed over $140 million worldwide. The actress recently starred in Normal People Twistersthe sequel to the 1996 disaster movie starring Bill Pullman and Helen Hunt.