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[[Image:Flintdille.JPG|right|250px|thumb|Not pictured: Lady Jaye Dille.]]
[[Image:Flintdille.JPG|right|250px|thumb|Not pictured: Lady Jaye Dille.]]
'''Flint Dille''' (born 1955) is a writer and story editor who wrote episodes for numerous [[Sunbow]] productions in the 1980s, including ''G.I. Joe'', ''InHumanoids'', ''Visionaries'', and ''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 recently recorded a DVD commentary for [[The Transformers: The Movie]] with [[Susan Blu]] and [[Nelson Shin]].
'''Flint Dille''' (born 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 (cartoon)|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'.
His last name is pronounced 'Dill-ee'.
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* Dille once bailed [[Chris Latta]] out of jail.  When questioned, Latta claimed to have been arrested for jaywalking. This apparently happened more than once and (Dille claims) was a main factor in phasing [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] out of the series.
* Dille once bailed [[Chris Latta]] out of jail.  When questioned, Latta claimed to have been arrested for jaywalking. This apparently happened more than once and (Dille claims) was a main factor in phasing [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] out of the series.
* Dille's favourite Transformer is [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]].
* Dille's favourite Transformer is [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]].
==Convention appearances==
*[[BotCon 2009]]


==External links==
==External links==
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Revision as of 14:19, 31 May 2009

The name or term "Flint" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Flint (disambiguation).
Not pictured: Lady Jaye Dille.

Flint Dille (born 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

Other

Trivia

  • The controversial "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.
  • In Fire in the Sky, the Autobots are gunned down by Starscream before a commercial break, only to be revealed to be alive thanks to a hologram in the next act. Dille inserted the line "Thank heavens for that bogus plot device or we'd be finished" into the script, only to remove it as the episode was recorded.
  • Dille once bailed Chris Latta out of jail. When questioned, Latta claimed to have been arrested for jaywalking. This apparently happened more than once and (Dille claims) was a main factor in phasing Starscream out of the series.
  • Dille's favourite Transformer is Starscream.

Convention appearances