The DVD is great - but it is getting long in the tooth! I'd gladly double-dip for a 2-disc edition with remastered video - the compression artifacts on a large screen TV is very obvious, particularly the night Arecibo scenes and the large array evening scenes.
Luckily, I had a chance to view a...
According to William Poundstone's Sagan biography, director Robert Zemeckis was signed on after Warner fired director George Miller (who directed the Mad Max movies):
Christ, were you looking for movies portraying or featuring compasses, and stumbled upon this thread? :D
I am currently reading William Poundstone's biography on Carl Sagan. It spends several pages discussing the early adaptations for the movie, but I haven't finished that section yet.
Sagan...