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David Koepp
Known for: WritingDavid Gerard Koepp (born June 9, 1963) is an American screenwriter and director. He is the ninth most successful screenwriter of all time in terms of U.S. box office receipts, with a total gross of over $2.3 billion. Koepp has achieved both critical and commercial success in a wide variety of genres: thriller, science fiction, comedy, action, drama, crime, superhero, horror, adventure, and fantasy. Some of the best-known films he has written include the sci-fi adventure films Jurassic Park (1993), The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008); the crime film Carlito's Way (1993); the action spy films Mission: Impossible (1996) and Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014); the superhero film Spider-Man (2002); the sci-fi disaster film War of the Worlds (2005); and the mystery thriller Angels & Demons (2009). Koepp has directed seven feature films over the course of his career: The Trigger Effect (1996), Stir of Echoes (1999), Secret Window (2004), Ghost Town (2008), Premium Rush (2012), Mortdecai (2015), and You Should Have Left (2020).
Filmography 38
Disclosure Day
Black Bag
Jurassic World Rebirth
Mission: Impossible
Spider-Man
Cold Storage
Angels & Demons
Jurassic Park
War of the Worlds
Inferno
Snake Eyes
The Mummy
Zathura: A Space Adventure
Presence
Death Becomes Her
The Shadow
Carlito's Way
Panic Room
Secret Window
Premium Rush
You Should Have Left
Stir of Echoes
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
Dark Angel
Mortdecai
Why Me?
Ghost Town
The Trigger Effect
The Paper
Bad Influence
Kimi
Toy Soldiers
The Little Engine That Could
The Lost World: Jurassic Park