
David Koepp
Biography
David Koepp (/kɛp/; 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).
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Acting (8 movies)

The Making of 'Carlito's Way'
2003

Big Trouble
2002

Spielberg
2017

A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers
2009

The Making of 'The Lost World'
1997

The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1997

Jurassic World Rebirth: The Making of a New Era
2025

Tom Hanks: A League of His Own
2016
Directing (8 movies)
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Apartment Zero | 1989 | Producer |
| Apartment Zero | 1989 | Screenplay |
| Dark Angel | 1990 | Writer |
| Why Me? | 1990 | Screenplay |
| Bad Influence | 1990 | Writer |
| Toy Soldiers | 1991 | Screenplay |
| Death Becomes Her | 1992 | Writer |
| Jurassic Park | 1993 | Screenplay |
| Carlito's Way | 1993 | Screenplay |
| The Paper | 1994 | Screenplay |
| The Paper | 1994 | Producer |
| The Shadow | 1994 | Screenplay |
| Mission: Impossible | 1996 | Screenplay |
| The Trigger Effect | 1996 | Screenplay |
| The Lost World: Jurassic Park | 1997 | Screenplay |
| Snake Eyes | 1998 | Screenplay |
| Stir of Echoes | 1999 | Screenplay |
| Panic Room | 2002 | Producer |
| Panic Room | 2002 | Screenplay |
| Spider-Man | 2002 | Screenplay |
| Secret Window | 2004 | Screenplay |
| War of the Worlds | 2005 | Screenplay |
| Zathura: A Space Adventure | 2005 | Screenplay |
| Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | 2008 | Screenplay |
| Ghost Town | 2008 | Screenplay |
| Angels & Demons | 2009 | Screenplay |
| The Little Engine That Could | 2011 | Screenplay |
| Premium Rush | 2012 | Writer |
| Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit | 2014 | Screenplay |
| Inferno | 2016 | Screenplay |
| The Mummy | 2017 | Screenplay |
| You Should Have Left | 2020 | Screenplay |
| Kimi | 2022 | Writer |
| Kimi | 2022 | Producer |
| Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny | 2023 | Writer |
| Presence | 2025 | Writer |
| Presence | 2025 | Executive Producer |
| Black Bag | 2025 | Writer |
| Black Bag | 2025 | Executive Producer |
| Jurassic World Rebirth | 2025 | Writer |
| Cold Storage | 2026 | Producer |
| Cold Storage | 2026 | Screenplay |
| The Dish | 2026 | Screenplay |







