![]() ![]() Sadly, Sagan passed away at the age of 62 in 1996, just prior to the Hollywood movie's theatrical release. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known. In addition to his many lifelong achievements, aptitude for teaching and inspiring voice in astronomy and cosmology, Sagan's bestselling novel "Contact" was adapted by director Robert Zemeckis ("Back to the Future," "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?") into the Academy Award-nominated 1997 sci-fi feature starring Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. Academy Award nominee Nanette Burstein ("On the Ropes," "The Kid Stays in the Picture") is aboard as the film's director. Per Deadline, the starbound legend of Carl Sagan will live on in a mind-expanding project being produced by National Geographic Documentary Films in alliance with Fuzzy Door's Seth MacFarlane and Erica Huggins, Emmy and Peabody winner Ann Druyan (Sagan's life partner). ![]() Carl Sagan, the acclaimed astronomer, astrophysicist and author who introduced a whole generation to the wonders of the heavens with his bestselling "Cosmos" science book and TV series and made saying the phrase "billions and billions" so much fun, is getting a new documentary feature on his prolific career courtesy of NatGeo and Seth MacFarlane. ![]()
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