Tim Burton Calls Upon Twitter Users to Write a 'Stainboy' Story

While the Museum of Modern Art features a retrospective looking back at the work of writer/director Tim Burton, the filmmaker is fiddling with a new piece of work with the help of the online community. Using the character from the flash animated shorts The World of Stainboy (which first appeared in Burton's short story collection The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories), The Wrap reports Burton is calling upon Twitter  users to write a new story featuring Stainboy. Using Cadavre Exquis (aka Exquisite Corpse), any Twitter user adds to the story in sequence, building on the last line revealed. Details below!

Head on over to the story's main page, provided by the Toronto International Film Festival, to check out the story which has utilized over 40 tweets to tell the ongoing story thus far. Burton launched the story itself with this one line, "Stainboy, using his obvious expertise, was called in to investigate mysterious glowing goo on the gallery floor." Following suit, users have been attempting to add the next line of the story complete with the hashtag #BurtonStory. Don't worry if yours doesn't get chosen, because all the potential entries can be seen in a stream on the same page containing the story itself.

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