The Nexus: The Story Begins

The Nexus: The Story Begins is an American animated television film that serves as the pilot for The Nexus. The film aired on September 8, 2022 at 9:30pm, as a lead out for a Special Vision Event.

Plot
Plot line not available at this time.

Cast
TBD

Development
Development of the television film started alongside the first season of The Nexus. Doyle and Alexander and Timothy Bell developed the 96 minute film during the first two months of actual writing. After writing, them and Teagan Harper started doing initial storyboarding before heading the script and storyboards to the animation and VFX studios. Having to do a whole television film during the whole development of the first season was taxing on the writers and Harper, as she had to co-direct and handle camera movements for the entire film, but all involved knew that it had to happen since no one would watch four weeks of exposition.

Animation
Directed by Doyle and co-directed by Harper, the film was animated at The Embassy, in-house by Axtyon's in house team, and CGCG. Cinesite and Axis Studios were trying to catch up with animating the bulk of the first few episodes of the actual run of the show, and seeing that the quality of the show wasn't the greatest, Doyle and Harper contacted Canadian VFX/Animation firm The Embassy to help polish and make the film better to watch for the casual viewing audience member.

Post-production
Post production was handled by MakeMake Entertainment and their subsidiaries. Elastic worked on the opening and closing credits, Rock Paper Scissors worked on the editing of the film, JAX worked on the trailers for the film and show, and Indestructible worked on composing music for the trailers and co-composed the film.

Music
Music was handled by the Kiner brothers and co-composed by MakeMake Entertainment's Indestructible subsidiary.

Release
The film had it's world premiere on the television network Vision and Vision Canada on September 8, 2022, and was released subsequently on Vision networks globally. Gunpowder & Sky|DUST distributed the film as 24 minute episodes over the course of four weeks online and on their YouTube channel, before the film got released in December on Vision's Paramount+ hub.

Marketing
A billboard ad campaign was designed in house and by Out of Home Creative, and was co-distributed by Out of Home Creative and Clear Channel Outdoor. Billboards were set up in major cities in North America and Europe, including Los Angeles, New York City (in Time Square even), Atlanta, Boston, Miami, San Francisco, Dallas, Denver, Washington D.C., Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, London, Dublin, among other mini-major to major cities.