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David Koepp

Known for: Writing

David 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

Cold Storage 2026Movie Screenplay, Novel
Silmapete 1998Movie Screenplay, Story
Salajane aken 2004Movie Apple TV StoreAmazon Video Director, Screenplay
Paanikatuba 2002Movie Apple TV Store Screenplay, Producer
Sööst 2012Movie Apple TV StoreAmazon Video Director, Writer
Stir of Echoes 1999Movie Director, Screenplay
Ghost Town 2008Movie Apple TV StoreAmazon Video Director, Screenplay
The Trigger Effect 1996Movie Apple TV Store Director, Screenplay
The Paper 1994Movie Apple TV Store Screenplay, Producer
Kimi 2022Movie HBO MaxApple TV StoreAmazon Video Writer, Producer