Flint Dille

Not pictured: Lady Jaye Dille.

Flint Dille(bornNovember 3,1955) is a writer and story editor who wrote episodes for numerousSunbow Productionsin the 1980s, includingG.I. Joe,Inhumanoids,Visionaries,andThe Transformers.As a story editor on the originalTransformerscartoon, he was responsible for approving and supervising the writing of scripts, as well as maintaining continuity, and also developed the origin of the Transformers (in one continuity, at least) in "Five Faces of Darkness".He now primarily works in the video game industry, and recorded a DVD commentary forThe Transformers: The Movie20th Anniversary Edition withSusan BluandNelson Shin.

His last name is pronounced 'Dill-ee'.

Credits

Writer

• "Prime Target"
• "Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1"
• "Five Faces of Darkness, Part 2"
• "Five Faces of Darkness, Part 3"
• "Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4"
• "Five Faces of Darkness, Part 5"
• Transformers The Game(withJohn Zuur Platten)
• The Transformers: Autocracy
• The Transformers: Monstrosity
• The Transformers: Primacy
• The Transformers: The Movie 35th Anniversary Stop Motions

Other

• The Transformers(Associate Producer, seasons 2. Story Editor, season 3)
• The Transformers: The Movie(story consultant)

Convention appearances

• BotCon 2004
• BotCon 2009
• BotCon 2011
• San Diego Comic-Con 2023

Notes

• The "Quintessonorigin "depicted in" Five Faces of Darkness "originates in Dille's rejected Transformers movie script, entitledThe Secret of Cybertron.
• AlthoughThe Secret of Cybertronwas rejected, a number of concepts from it made their way into the finished film, resulting in Dille's prominent story consultant credit.
• Dille recalls a scene in a script he edited in which the Autobots survived death by means ofHound's holograms. Thinking it a bit of a cheat, he intended to replace the idea with something else, and added the joking placeholder line "Thank heavens for that bogus plot device or we'd be finished" into the script in the meantime. He wound up forgetting to revise the script, and the placeholder line wasalmostincluded in the episode, until it was caught during recording! This particular plot point occurred in both "Fire in the Sky"and"The Insecticon Syndrome";given the time period in which Dille was involved in the show, the instance he encountered was probably the latter.
• Dille once bailedChris Lattaout of jail. When questioned, Latta claimed to have been arrested for jaywalking.
• Regardless, Dille's favorite Transformer isStarscream.
• Dille appeared on an interview as a special feature forKid Rhino'sThe TransformersSeason 2 Part 2 DVD set.

External links

• Flint Dille's Twitter feed
• Flint Dille at the Internet Movie Database

Interviews

• Visionaries Online(archived link)
• JoeHeadquarters(archived link)
• June 2005—Cybertron Chronicle (Preamble,Part I,Part II,Part III,Credits)
• June 2011—BotCon(withChris Ryall,Andy Schmidt,Mike Costa,andLivio Ramondelli)
• June 2011—The Realm(dead link)
• May 2012—The Underbase(with Christ Metzen)
• July 2012—The Underbase(with Christ Metzen and Livio Ramondelli)
• 2012—transformers2015
• October 2015—TransMissions