Flint Dille

Not pictured: Lady Jaye Dille.

Flint Dille (born November 3, 1955) is a writer and story editor who wrote episodes for numerous Sunbow Productions in the 1980s, including G.I. Joe, Inhumanoids, Visionaries, and The Transformers. As a story editor on the original Transformers cartoon, 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 for The Transformers: The Movie 20th Anniversary Edition with Susan Blu and Nelson 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 (with John 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 "Quintesson origin" depicted in "Five Faces of Darkness" originates in Dille's rejected Transformers movie script, entitled The Secret of Cybertron.
• Although The Secret of Cybertron was 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 of Hound'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 was almost included 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 bailed Chris Latta out of jail. When questioned, Latta claimed to have been arrested for jaywalking.
• Regardless, Dille's favorite Transformer is Starscream.
• Dille appeared on an interview as a special feature for Kid Rhino's The Transformers Season 2 Part 2 DVD set.
• Dille's grandfather founded John F. Dille Co., a newspaper syndication business which originally published Buck Rogers, an IP that Flint himself is now a partial owner of.

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 (with Chris Ryall, Andy Schmidt, Mike Costa, and Livio 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