Also producing is production company Hungry Man.
His 1985 novelContactwas adapted into the 1997 Robert Zemeckis film starring Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey.
A release date has not been set.

Astronomer Carl SaganPhoto by Tony Korody/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images
Carls life is a multidimensional epic, said executive producer Ann Druyan.
Carl shaped how I view the world in the most fundamental ways.
National Geographics recent documentaries include the Oscar-nominatedFire of Love, directed by Sara Dosa, and the Oscar-shortlistedRetrogradeandThe Territory.

Dr. Carl Sagan during an interview with ‘The Tonight Show’ host Johnny Carson on September 16, 1976.Photo by: Frank Carroll/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images