Movie Trailer Script
Writer: Trevor Hutchins
Run time: 45 seconds.
Homestuck: Act 1* Teaser
OPEN on John’s neighborhood as a red glow descends. Birds flee. JOHN EGBERT rushes onto
his balcony, flies to the railing, and looks into the sky.
ROSE (VO): S ince you’re reading this...chances are you started playing a game
called Sburb.
JOHN (VO): If this is true, then like many others...
Reflected in John’s glasses, see a METEOR bearing down on Earth. Cut to black...
JOHN (VO): You’ve participated in bringing about the end of the world.
Scenes appear, moving faster as the music picks up. ROSE LALONDE battles toward Jasper’s
Mausoleum, through a raging storm. DAVE STRIDER watches BRO approach. JADE HARLEY
prepares to turn a corner with her rifle, her god-dog Becquerel waiting on the other side.
DAVE (VO): But don’t beat yourself up about it...
JACK NOIR stands on Skaia, wearing a Queen’s Ring and holding a King’s Sceptre. The
MAYOR bands together with PM and AR atop the dune of an apocalyptic wasteland. CALLIE
peeks out from behind a curtain. An IMP turns around menacingly. GRANDPA HARLEY steers
a space battleship as MOM and DAD hold hands. Heading to SKAIA. The screen goes dark.
JADE (VO): T here was never anything you could have done to prevent it…
But now, you have a decision to make:
Fade in. See a yellow spiral galaxy, a stage. GOD-TIER JADE lifts her head, looking at us.
JADE: What will you do?
Music reaches the climax. Smash cut to Title Screen:
Homestuck: Act 1*
Releasing April 13, 2020
The End
*The first movie should be called s omething, by Jove. “Act 1” is a placeholder, for now.