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Flint Dille (born November 3, 1955) is an American screenwriter, game designer and novelist. He is best known for his animated work on ''
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'', '' An American Tail: Fievel Goes West'', and his game-writing, '' The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay'', and ''
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'', as well as a non-fiction book written with John Zuur Platten, ''The Ultimate Guide to Video Game Writing and Design ''.


Personal background

Dille was born in
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, the son of Robert Crabtree Dille and Virginia Nichols Dille. He attended
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. In 1977, he graduated from
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with a
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in Ancient History and Classical Rhetoric. He received a
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in Professional Writing (Cinema) from the
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. He lives in
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. Flint Dille is the grandson of John F. Dille, publisher of the original ''
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'' comic strip, and is part of the Dille Family Trust, which owned the rights to the character.


Professional background

After grad school, Dille worked as a freelance script reader, production assistant, and assistant art director before getting his first writing job from
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at
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as a Saturday Morning Development writer. This led to writing scripts for '' Mr. T.'', ''The Puppy'', and ''RoboForce''. Later, Dille went to work for
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and served in various capacities as Writer, Story Editor, Associate Producer, and Co-Producer on several shows, including '' The Transformers'', ''
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'', ''
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'' and '' Visionaries''. Dille was a story editor for the first season of ''G.I. Joe'' (1985). He also wrote the episodes "The Gamesmaster," "Eau De Cobra," and ""Skeletons in the Closet," and co-wrote the episodes "The Pit of Vipers," "The Wrong Stuff," "Grey Hairs and Growing Pains," and "G.I. Joe and the Golden Fleece." Dille joined the production team of ''The Transformers'' as a supervising story editor in the show's second season (1985-1986) and also co-wrote the episode "Prime Target" with his ''G.I. Joe'' colleague
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. Dille worked on an extensive rewrite of Ron Friedman's screenplay for '' Transformers: The Movie'' (1986); although Friedman contractually received sole screenplay credit, Dille was credited onscreen as the film's story consultant. After the movie, Dille served as a story editor for the third season of ''The Transformers'' (1986-1987) and wrote the season's five-part opening story, "Five Faces of Darkness." Dille returned to ''G.I. Joe'' after the series was taken over by
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, co-writing the episode "Injustice and the Cobra Way" for the show's first DIC season (1990-1991). Dille worked briefly at CBS on the in-house production of ''
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'', before working with
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on several projects, including '' An American Tail: Fievel Goes West'', ''
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'' (as a movie), and '' We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story''.


TSR and Dungeons & Dragons

Dille met
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, co-creator of
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, while Gygax was in Hollywood and they began collaborating on a number of projects, including the '' Sagard the Barbarian''
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series (1985-1986), which was published by
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. Dille co-authored a script with Gygax for a ''Dungeons & Dragons'' film; however, the film was never made. Dille introduced his sister
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to Gygax at Gygax's request. TSR was having hard times financially, and she was suggested as both a potential investor and as a skilled manager, and she was brought in to TSR as Vice President and Administration. In 1989, TSR expanded its operations to the west coast to get adaptations of ''D&D'' back on television and into movies; Dille was put in charge of this new department, which was named TSR West. Dille was able to get the boardgame '' A Line in the Sand'' (1991) published the same day the US bombing started in the first Gulf War, as he could convince the company president to move quickly. The Buck Rogers roleplaying game '' XXVc'' was started TSR West, but Dille was unable to finish the game so it was sent back east. For the rest of the 1980s, Dille focused on animation writing and game writing and design. At TSR, Dille worked on '' Dragonstrike'', for which he wrote and directed the video portion. Dille also directed several interactive audio projects, including ''
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'', ''
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'', ''
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'' and ''
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''. The TSR Audio Disc ''Terror T.R.A.X: Track of the Vampyre'', was later adapted into a CD-ROM by
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, directed by Dille and programmed by Peter Marx and Evolutionary Publishing. Dille co-wrote the '' Agent 13: The Midnight Avenger'' series of novels and graphic novels with
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and also the ''
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'' comic modules '' Rude Awakening''.


Interactive Games

Dille's career shifted to interactive games in the late 80's when he worked on several projects for the Sega CD platform, including '' Double Switch'', ''
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'' and ''
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''. Dille then worked on ''
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'' and ''
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'' for
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, writing the videos and completing his transition from paper games and products to video games. Dille won "Story of the Year" for his work on '' The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay'' and on ''
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''. Dille was the writer for other video games, including '' Fantastic Four 2'', ''
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'', ''
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'', '' James Bond: Tomorrow Never Dies'', ''
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'', and ''
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''.


Frank Miller

Dille is a close friend of comics creator
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; "Frank and I met during what I call our 'professional adolescence' when he was doing the Dark Knight and I was doing the Transformers cartoon series," says Dille, "and we've been great friends ever since." Dille was selected to lead the design, scriptwriting, story generation, and production of a video game adaptation of Miller's ''
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'' for Red Mile Entertainment. Miller planned to direct a ''Buck Rogers'' film, with Dille as producer, but this project was scrapped in 2009. The character of Dilios in Miller's
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''
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'' (1998), loosely based on
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, is named after Dille.


Ingress

Google revealed Flint Dille to be the creative lead of alternate reality, geomobile game
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on All Tech Considered, an NPR radio segment. The project operates as if it isn't a game, presenting itself as reality at Wyrd Con 2014. At ComiCon 2014 Dille spoke on the panel "Story Worlds: The Alchemy of Franchise Creation." Using his experience with Ingress, he explained the way different medias are growing interconnected.


Niantic Labs

Niantic Labs spun out of Google in 2015, although Google remained a major backer. Dille was revealed to be leaving Google with Niantic Labs and continuing in his position as Creative Lead.


Autocracy

Recently Flint Dille completed a ''Transformers'' graphic novel trilogy, Autocracy, with
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and Livio Ramondelli. The series follows the origins of Optimus Prime and Megatron one million years before they arrive on Earth.


Transportopia

At TechWeek LA, Dille unveiled Transportopia, which he describes as turning the entire city of Los Angeles into a massively-multiplayer online game as an attempt to change our relation to the city and "move us outside of our bubbles."


Other projects

Dille co-wrote and co-executive produced
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's 2005 horror film ''
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''. Dille also taught an Alternate Reality Game Design class at UCLA film school, Winter Semester 2011.


Tabletop games

* ''
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'' (1985-1986): the Barbarian Interactive Gamebook series with
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Screenwriting

* television series head writer denoted in bold


Video games

* ''
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'' (1994) * ''Terror TRAX: Track of the Vampire'' (1995) * ''
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'' (1996) * ''
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'' (1997) * '' Army Men: Sarge%27s Heroes'' (1999) * ''
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'' (1999) * ''Citizen X'' (2002) * ''
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'' (2002) * '' Fire Blade'' (2002) * '' Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu'' (2003) * '' Mission: Impossible – Operation Surma'' (2003) * '' The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay'' (2004) * ''
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'' (2005) * ''
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'' (2005) * ''
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'' (2006) * ''
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'' (2006) * '' Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer'' (2007) * '' Transformers: The Game'' (2007) * '' The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena'' (2009) * '' Ghostbusters: The Video Game'' (2009) * '' Wheelman'' (2009)


Television

* '' The Puppy’s Further Adventures'' (1983) * ''
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'' (1983) * '' Robo Force: The Revenge of Nazgar'' (1984) * ''
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'' (1985) * '' G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero'' (1985-1986) * '' The Transformers'' (1985-1987): season 3 head writer * ''
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'' (1986) * ''
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'' (1987) * '' Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light'' (1987) * '' G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero'' (1990) * ''
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'' (1991) * ''
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'' (1992) * '' Transformers: Generation 2'' (1993)


Films

* '' The Transformers: The Movie'' (1986) * '' An American Tail: Fievel Goes West'' (1991) * ''
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'' (2005) * '' Starship Troopers: Invasion'' (2012)


Transformers web shorts

* ''Discontinued? What do you mean I’m being discontinued?'' (2021) * ''Are you kidding me?! You dropped the Matrix!'' (2021) * ''10,000 pardons, but you mean Bombshell, right?'' (2021) * ''Who else had a Quintesson space loogie on their bingo card?'' (2021) * ''Sharkticons, good at more than just chomping!'' (2021) * ''It sucks getting old...am I right?'' (2021)


Critical reception

Regarding Dille's script for ''Fievel Goes West'', critic Cliff Terry wrote, "Screenwriter Flint Dille has provided a story that is frenetic and fast-paced—in the end, too hyper, too cluttered—with some decidedly dark touches that, conceivably, could have undertones of the Holocaust. To lighten things up, Dille periodically tosses in bits of relatively sophisticated humor. At one point, the desert is described as 'a million-acre catbox,' there are references to espresso and endive, and when Miss Kitty cuts out on Tiger, she purrs—''
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''-like: 'We'll always have the Bronx.'"


Published works

* * Dille, Flint (2020). ''The Gamesmaster: My Life in the '80s Geek Culture Trenches with G.I. Joe, Dungeons & Dragons, and The Transformers''. Los Angeles, CA: Rare Bird Books, A Vireo Book. .


References


External links

*
G.I. Joe Interview - Flint Dille
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