None of those things would make Home Stuck work by any measure. You need all of the acts and characters. All of them.
edited 2nd Apr '11 2:04:16 PM by Zeromaeus
An experimental film exploring each of the quadrants as they apply to human pop culture?
D:
And we haven't even discussed what will happen to Rose. How dark can she possibly go? What was that cloud in the end-an explosion? What are all those specks of green? Ggggnnnnngh I want to know more.
edited 2nd Apr '11 3:00:00 PM by dundee_998
so you want to make a movie about a webcomic by stripping about 75% of the plot.
"Coffee! Coffeecoffeecoffee! Coffee! Not as strong as Meth-amphetamine, but it lets you keep your teeth!"Hey, I bet it's hard to make an adaptation of something into another medium. Things WILL be lost. Things will be added too, as necessary. But it's hard when you're not the author of the original work.
Digimon Digital Liveblog by Myself! Yay!Its silly to talk about adapting a work that's not done yet. You don't know which minor details are going to be hugely essential. That was a thing with the Harry Potter movie series.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersA while back, I saw an idea for a Homestuck movie, as directed by M. Night Shyamalan; I've since lost the link, but as long as you do better than that, I think you'll be okay.
The Philosopher-King ParadoxJesus fuck, I go out of town for like two days and as soon as I come back I find out John's gone and gotten himself killed AGAIN (total deaths as of this post: 3).
And yeah, no fucking way is this permanent.
A: it's not suitably Heroic. The motivation wasn't "this person is a monster and needs to go down", it was "FUCK YOU YOU SON OF A BITCH, YOU KILLED MY DAD", which isn't terribly heroic, even if it is justifiable.
B: It's not suitably Just. John's been pretty much the perfect squeaky-clean kids' show protagonist to this point. There's no real justice in him dying, especially like this.
C: We know he survives in some form in the future. This is an immutable fact that is being stated for the record.
D: Come on, if John actually ended up dying before the rift, there's no way that Karkat wouldn't have gloated about it at some point.
edited 2nd Apr '11 3:46:00 PM by Theoneknownasme
God Tiers can only die a "just" or "heroic" death. That is, either they go off the reservation and karma bites them in the ass, or they die saving the world. Emphasis on saving: trying to save the world and failing isn't "heroic", it's just tragic. If it's not pyrrhic victory, it's not pyrrhic anything.
And yeah, "saving the world" is just a handy example. It could be any suitably great deed.
Maybe I wasn't entirely clear. I'm not making this script with the intention of making a sequel (never minding the fact it would never get used in a million years anyway. It's just for fun). The plot not being done is not a problem because it's ending at act 4. Minor details that rise to significance later is not a problem because they never will. And since it is ending at act 4, the ending will of course have to be terribly reworked. I know this already guys. A small cast of characters going through a fantastical game, whilest no match for the utter complexity of the webcomic, could be intriguing in its own rights (and if it's not? Well, the point is to write, not to be good, so it doesn't matter).
What I am asking for here is suggestions on what changes and additions you think would be necessary in making a self contained homestuck movie.
edited 2nd Apr '11 4:36:05 PM by Moth13
Seriously, don't adapt Home Stuck unless you intend to adapt ALL of Home Stuck. Just come up with something... spin-offy otherwise. You could do an AlterniaStuck, expanding on the untold stories of the trolls.
Prequel: Scratched attempt at a session. Bittersweet Ending, tops, but still may be cool.

Uh... Guys? I don't know if it means anything, but the name of the song in the flash is "At the Price of Oblivion"
"Coffee! Coffeecoffeecoffee! Coffee! Not as strong as Meth-amphetamine, but it lets you keep your teeth!"