Nexus: Airships of Egypt

A three-minute trailer made before the Wet Markets teaser, for the XPRIZE film competition that Peter Diamandis created to put $2.5 million behind a film showing an optimistic, abundant future. PJ Accetturo made it after watching Project Hail Mary, and making it led to Nexus being funded.

He and writing partner Dan Weller spent three weeks on the three-minute script, more than he has spent on thirty-page scripts, and cracked the structure by transcribing Project Hail Mary trailers and working with Gemini to map their beats onto the story. After the theme shifted from a drought to animals in crisis, this trailer stopped being canon, but its characters and locations carry into the feature.