Title: Contact (1997 American film)
Content:  They wrote a film treatment more than 100 pages long and set up Contact at Warner Bros. with Peter Guber and Lynda Obst as producers. When development stalled, Sagan published Contact as a novel in 1985, and the film reentered development in 1989. Roland Joffé and George Miller had planned to direct, but Joffé dropped out in 1993, and Warner Bros. fired Miller in 1995. With Zemeckis as director, filming lasted from September 1996 to February 1997. Sony Pictures Imageworks handled most of the visual effects sequences. Contact was released on July 11, 1997. It grossed over $171 million worldwide and won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation along with several wins at the Saturn Awards.
Title: Contact (1997 American film)
Content:  Joss and also considered casting Linda Hunt as the President of the United States. In addition to having aliens put on a laser lighting display around Earth, another version of the Goldenberg scripts had an alien wormhole swallow up the planet, transporting Earth to the center of the galaxy. Miller also asked Goldenberg to rewrite Contact in an attempt to portray the Pope as a key supporting character. Warner Bros. was hoping to have the film ready for release by Christmas 1996, but under Miller's direction pre-production lasted longer than expected. The studio fired the director, blaming pushed-back start dates, budget concerns, and Miller's insistence that the script needed five 
Title: Contact (1997 American film)
Content:  late 1993. Goldenberg's second draft rekindled Warner Bros. interest in Contact, and Robert Zemeckis was offered the chance to direct, but he turned down the opportunity in favor of making a film based on the life of Harry Houdini. Zemeckis recalled: The first script [for Contact] I saw was great until the last page and a half... and then it had the sky open up and these angelic aliens putting on a light show and I said, 'That's just not going to work.' In December 1993, Warner Bros. hired George Miller to direct, and Contact commenced pre-production. Miller cast Jodie Foster in the lead role, approached Ralph Fiennes to play 
Title: Contact (1997 American film)
Content:  which was published by Simon and Schuster in September 1985. The film adaptation remained in development, and Guber eventually vacated his position at Warner Bros. in 1989. Guber became the new president of Sony Pictures Entertainment and tried to purchase the film rights of Contact from Warner, but the studio refused. Coincidentally, in 1989, Obst was hired as a new executive at Warner and began to fast-track the film by hiring more writers. Roland Joffé was eventually hired to direct, using a screenplay by James V. Hart. Joffé almost commenced pre-production before he dropped out, and Obst then hired Michael Goldenberg to rewrite the script, who finished his second draft 
Title: Contact (1997 American film)
Content:  weeks of rewriting. Robert Zemeckis, who previously turned down the director's position, decided to accept the offer. Warner Bros. granted Zemeckis total artistic control and the right of final cut privilege. The director cast Matthew McConaughey as Palmer Joss; McConaughey dropped out of the lead role in The Jackal to take the role in Contact. Despite being diagnosed with myelodysplasia in 1994, Sagan continued to be involved in the production of the film. For the cast and main crew members, he conducted an academic conference that depicted a detailed history of astronomy. During the development of Contact, the production crew watched Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) for inspiration.
Title: Kerstin Emhoff
Content: The Tillman Story (2010), executive producer ; Manhunt: The Search for Bin Laden (2013), executive producer ; Pretty Hurts (2013), Beyoncé music video, executive producer ; We Are the Giant (2014), executive producer ; Mojave (2015), associate producer ; XOXO (2016), executive producer ; The Monster (2016), co-producer ; We Are X (2016), executive producer ; The Final Year (2017), executive producer ; Legion of Brothers (2017), executive producer ; Ready for War (2019), producer ; AKA Jane Roe (2020), producer 
Title: Contact (1997 American film)
Content:  Contact is a 1997 American science fiction drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis, based on the 1985 novel by Carl Sagan. Sagan and his wife Ann Druyan wrote the story outline for the film. It stars Jodie Foster as Dr. Eleanor "Ellie" Arroway, a SETI scientist who finds evidence of extraterrestrial life and is chosen to make first contact. The film also stars Matthew McConaughey, James Woods, Tom Skerritt, William Fichtner, John Hurt, Angela Bassett, Rob Lowe, Jake Busey, and David Morse. The film features the Very Large Array in New Mexico, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, the Mir space station, and the Space Coast surrounding Cape Canaveral. Sagan and Druyan began working on Contact in 
Title: Byron M. Jones
Content: Producer – Holyman Undercover (2010) ; Producer – Sarah's Choice (2009) ; Producer – In the Blink of an Eye (2009) ; Producer – The Wager (2007) ; Producer – Home Beyond the Sun (2004) ; Actor – In the Blink of an Eye 
Title: 2010: The Year We Make Contact
Content:  He's one of my idols; simply one of the greatest talents that's ever walked the Earth. He more or less said, 'Sure. Go do it. I don't care.' And another time he said, 'Don't be afraid. Just go do your own movie.'" While he was writing the screenplay in 1983, Hyams (in Los Angeles) began communicating with Clarke (in Sri Lanka) via the then-pioneering medium of e-mail using Kaypro II computers and direct-dial modems. They discussed the planning and production of the film almost daily using this method, and their informal, often humorous correspondence was published in 1984 as The Odyssey File. As it focuses on the screenwriting and pre-production process, the book terminates on February 
Title: Alex Young (studio executive)
Content:  All Fears, Sleepy Hollow, Star Trek: First Contact, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Paycheck and Deep Impact. In February 2002, Hutch Parker brought Young across to 20th Century Fox where he was named Vice-President of Production. Young rose from Vice President to Senior Vice President to Executive Vice President, working on films such as X-Men 2: X-Men United, X-Men: The Last Stand, Live Free or Die Hard, and Fantastic Four. In January 2007, Young was promoted along with Emma Watts to become Co-President of Production at 20th Century Fox. Becoming a producer at Fox in 2010, Young has produced Unstoppable, The A-Team, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Predators, A Good Day to Die Hard, and Hitman: Agent 47.

Question: Who was the producer of 2010: The Year We Make Contact?
Answer: Peter Hyams.