The above video is the first episode of The World of Stainboy, who helps the Burbank Police Department solve odd cases. Aside from animated shorts posted online, the character has also turned up in Tim Burton's book The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories.
Now Tim Burton is writing a new Stainboy adventure, and he wants your help! Well, not you specifically, but you as part of the greater internet. He's turned to Twitter with the account @BurtonStory, which has a little over 10k followers at the time of this writing, The idea is simple: Burton himself gave the first line of the story. Twitter users then suggested the next line in the story. The best line was selected, and the process went on. The story is currently at 42 parts and the process goes on until December 6th.
If you'd like the contribute, simply go to Twitter and check out @BurtonStory. The latest line of the story will be displayed at the top. To participate, simply tweet your contribution followed with the hashtag #BurtonStory.
It's not entirely clear what Tim Burton plans to do with the finished story, if anything, but it's a very interesting experiment either way. It might get a little zany as it goes, but that's never really been a problem for the filmmaker!
Tim Burton has directed almost 30 titles, including Batman, Batman Returns, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and the recent adaptation of Alice in Wonderland. He's currently working on Dark Shadows, a film adaptation of the 1960s gothic soap opera of the same name. The show centered around a vampire named Barnabas Collins, and as if you couldn't guess, Johnny Depp will be playing the role in the big screen adaptation.
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