Screenwriter Talks George Miller's More Intellectually Ambitious Version Of 'Contact'

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George Miller's career has a couple of what-could-have-beens, most notably his aborted "Justice League" movie. But also among the movies he nearly made is "Contact," the pretty good 1997 Robert Zemeckis sci-fi film starring Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey. Based on the novel by Carl Sagan, who only wrote book after his initial movie treatment was wasting away in development hell, Miller was initially attached to direct, and had lined up Foster to star, along with Ralph Fiennes in McConaughey's role. But alas, it didn't happen.

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There were many reasons the project didn't get greenlit, but essentially the budget got too big, and Warner Bros. ultimately decided they didn't like Miller's vision. Last year, the...