David Koepp

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 US box office receipts with a total gross of over 23 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 bestknown films he has written include the scifi 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 Carlitos Way 1993 the action spy films Mission Impossible 1996 and Jack Ryan Shadow Recruit 2014 the superhero film SpiderMan 2002 the scifi 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