Contact [Movies]

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Author Introduction

Ann Druyan (born June 13, 1949) is an American author and media producer known for her involvement in many projects aiming to popularize and explain science. She is probably best-known as the last wife of the late Carl Sagan, and co-author of the Cosmos series and book, along with Sagan and Steven Soter. Both Sagan and wife Ann Druyan wrote the story outline for the film adaptation of Contact. Druyan is an atheist, expressing the view in her writings that people can have a sense of awe and wonder about the unity of the cosmos without introducing the concept of a god.

According to Joel Achenbach of the Washington Post, who personally interviewed Druyan as well as Sagan before he died, before Druyan met Sagan her interest in science stemmed in part from her interest in the philosophy of Karl Marx.

Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan began working on the film in 1979. Together, they wrote a 100+ page film treatment and set Contact up at Warner Bros. with Peter Guber and Lynda Obst as producers. When the film ended up in development hell, Sagan published Contact as a novel in 1985 and the film adaptation was rejuvenated in 1989. The majority of the visual effects sequences were handled by Sony Pictures Imageworks.