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David Koepp

David 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). Provided by Wikipedia