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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
Screenplay
Jurassic World Rebirth
Writer
Mission: Impossible
Screenplay, Story
Spider-Man
Black Bag
Writer
Jurassic Park
Angels & Demons
Cold Storage
Screenplay, Novel
War of the Worlds
Screenplay
Death Becomes Her
Writer
Inferno
Snake Eyes
Screenplay, Story
The Mummy
Secret Window
Zathura: A Space Adventure
Presence
Writer
The Shadow
Screenplay
Carlito's Way
Screenplay
Panic Room
You Should Have Left
Premium Rush
Stir of Echoes
Director, Screenplay
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
Screenplay
Ghost Town
Director, Screenplay
Dark Angel
Writer
Mortdecai
Director
Why Me?
Screenplay
The Trigger Effect
Director, Screenplay
The Paper
Screenplay, Producer
Bad Influence
Kimi
Writer, Producer
Toy Soldiers
Screenplay
The Little Engine That Could
Screenplay
The Lost World: Jurassic Park