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According to Imdb
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118884/trivia

Carl Sagan and his wife Ann Druyan began the concept in 1980 as a movie treatment that was never picked up. Sagan finished the story alone and in 1985, released the book "Contact" with no further assistance from Druyan.
http://www.csmonitor.com/1982/0318/031863.html


Sagan and his wife have written a movie treatment for a feature film called ''Contact,'' about the first contact with extraterrestrial intelligences. ''I'm sworn to secrecy about much of the plot,'' he says. Like a weathercaster he predicts there is a 90 percent probability of the film being made by Columbia Pictures. And he adds that the leading character is a scientist - a woman scientist. At this moment he's writing the novel on which the film will be based and is having a lot of fun with it. ''One of my objectives is to portray in a feature film context the possibility of doing 'Cosmos' type effects on a large screen. That's very appealing to me. It's never been done. And also to get across the idea of scientists as people, not as cardboard cutouts, or malevolent monsters.''
Whatif Contact was done earlier ? :cool:
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