🎬David Koepp

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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Recent movies

#	Name	Character	Rating
1	Presence (2025)	Director / Writer		7
2	Jurassic World Rebirth (2025)	Director / Writer		6.1
3	Black Bag (2025) Recently popular movies	Director / Writer		6.6
4	Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) Most waited movies 2023 and after	Director / Writer		6.4
5	Kimi (2022)	Director / Writer		6.6
6	You Should Have Left (2020)	Director / Writer		6.2
7	The Mummy (2017)	Director / Writer		5.8
8	Spielberg (2017)	Self		6.9
9	Inferno (2016)	Director / Writer		6.4
10	Mortdecai (2015)	Director / Writer		5.8
11	Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)	Director / Writer		6.4
12	Premium Rush (2012)	Director / Writer		6.9
13	Angels & Demons (2009)	Director / Writer		6.9
14	Ghost Town (2008)	Director / Writer		6.8
15	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)	Director / Writer		6.1
16	War of the Worlds (2005) Oscars 2006	Director / Writer		6.5
17	Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005)	Director / Writer		6.5
18	Secret Window (2004)	Director / Writer		6.4
19	Big Trouble (2002)	Annoyed Sports Radio Host (voice)		7.7
20	Panic Room (2002)	Director / Writer		7.1
21	Spider-Man (2002) Oscars 2003	Director / Writer		7.4
22	Stir of Echoes (1999)	Director / Writer		7.3
23	Snake Eyes (1998)	Director / Writer		6.1
24	The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) Oscars 1998	Director / Writer		6.6
25	The Making of 'The Lost World' (1997)	Self	-	-
26	The Trigger Effect (1996)	Director / Writer		7
27	Mission: Impossible (1996)	Director / Writer		7.3
28	The Paper (1994)	Director / Writer		7.6
29	The Shadow (1994)	Director / Writer		6.8
30	Jurassic Park (1993)	Director / Writer		8.2
31	Carlito's Way (1993)	Director / Writer		7.4
32	Death Becomes Her (1992)	Director / Writer		7
33	Toy Soldiers (1991)	Director / Writer		7
34	Bad Influence (1990)	Director / Writer		4.5
35	Why Me? (1990)	Director / Writer	-	-
36	Dark Angel (1990)	Director / Writer		6
37	Apartment Zero (1989)	Director / Writer		3
38	Micro	Director / Writer	-	-