David Koepp (b. 1963)

Alias:
Leonard Maas kiçik
ديفيد كوب

Birthplace:
Pewaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Born:
June 9, 1963

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).  Description above from the Wikipedia article David Koepp, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Director:
1994  Suspicious
1996  The Trigger Effect
1999  Stir of Echoes
2004  Secret Window
2008  Ghost Town
2012  Premium Rush
2015  Mortdecai
2020  You Should Have Left

Executive Producer:
1994  Suspicious
1996  The Trigger Effect
1999  Stir of Echoes
2004  Secret Window
2008  Ghost Town
2012  Premium Rush
2015  Mortdecai
2020  You Should Have Left
2024  Presence
2025  Black Bag

Novel:
1994  Suspicious
1996  The Trigger Effect
1999  Stir of Echoes
2004  Secret Window
2008  Ghost Town
2012  Premium Rush
2015  Mortdecai
2020  You Should Have Left
2024  Presence
2025  Black Bag
2025  Cold Storage

Original Film Writer:
1994  Suspicious
1996  The Trigger Effect
1999  Stir of Echoes
2004  Secret Window
2008  Ghost Town
2012  Premium Rush
2015  Mortdecai
2020  You Should Have Left
2024  Presence
2025  Black Bag
2025  Cold Storage
????  Quarto do Pânico

Producer:
1989  Apartment Zero
1994  Suspicious
1994  The Paper
1996  The Trigger Effect
1999  Stir of Echoes
2002  Panic Room
2004  Secret Window
2008  Ghost Town
2012  Premium Rush
2015  Mortdecai
2020  You Should Have Left
2022  Kimi
2024  Presence
2025  Black Bag
2025  Cold Storage
????  Quarto do Pânico

Screenplay:
1989  Apartment Zero
1990  Dark Angel
1990  Why Me?
1991  Toy Soldiers
1993  Carlito's Way
1993  Jurassic Park
1994  Suspicious
1994  The Paper
1994  The Shadow
1996  Mission: Impossible
1996  The Trigger Effect
1997  The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1998  Snake Eyes
1999  Stir of Echoes
2002  Panic Room
2002  Spider-Man
2004  Secret Window
2005  War of the Worlds
2005  Zathura: A Space Adventure
2008  Ghost Town
2008  Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
2009  Angels & Demons
2011  The Little Engine That Could
2012  Premium Rush
2014  Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
2015  Mortdecai
2016  Inferno
2017  The Mummy
2020  You Should Have Left
2022  Kimi
2024  Presence
2025  Black Bag
2025  Cold Storage
2026  The Dish
????  Micro
????  Quarto do Pânico

Screenstory:
1989  Apartment Zero
1990  Dark Angel
1990  Why Me?
1991  Toy Soldiers
1993  Carlito's Way
1993  Jurassic Park
1994  Suspicious
1994  The Paper
1994  The Shadow
1996  Mission: Impossible
1996  The Trigger Effect
1997  The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1998  Snake Eyes
1999  Stir of Echoes
2002  Panic Room
2002  Spider-Man
2004  Secret Window
2005  War of the Worlds
2005  Zathura: A Space Adventure
2008  Ghost Town
2008  Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
2009  Angels & Demons
2011  The Little Engine That Could
2012  Premium Rush
2014  Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
2015  Mortdecai
2016  Inferno
2017  The Mummy
2020  You Should Have Left
2022  Kimi
2024  Presence
2025  Black Bag
2025  Cold Storage
2026  The Dish
????  Micro
????  Quarto do Pânico

Second Unit Director:
1989  Apartment Zero
1990  Dark Angel
1990  Why Me?
1991  Toy Soldiers
1993  Carlito's Way
1993  Jurassic Park
1994  Suspicious
1994  The Paper
1994  The Shadow
1996  Mission: Impossible
1996  The Trigger Effect
1997  The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1998  Snake Eyes
1999  Stir of Echoes
2002  Panic Room
2002  Spider-Man
2004  Secret Window
2005  War of the Worlds
2005  Zathura: A Space Adventure
2008  Ghost Town
2008  Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
2009  Angels & Demons
2011  The Little Engine That Could
2012  Premium Rush
2014  Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
2015  Mortdecai
2016  Inferno
2017  The Mummy
2020  You Should Have Left
2022  Kimi
2024  Presence
2025  Black Bag
2025  Cold Storage
2026  The Dish
????  Micro
????  Quarto do Pânico

Story:
1989  Apartment Zero
1990  Dark Angel
1990  Why Me?
1991  Toy Soldiers
1993  Carlito's Way
1993  Jurassic Park
1994  Suspicious
1994  The Paper
1994  The Shadow
1996  Mission: Impossible
1996  The Trigger Effect
1997  The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1998  Snake Eyes
1999  Stir of Echoes
2002  Panic Room
2002  Spider-Man
2004  Secret Window
2005  War of the Worlds
2005  Zathura: A Space Adventure
2008  Ghost Town
2008  Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
2009  Angels & Demons
2011  The Little Engine That Could
2012  Premium Rush
2014  Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
2015  Mortdecai
2016  Inferno
2017  The Mummy
2020  You Should Have Left
2022  Kimi
2024  Presence
2025  Black Bag
2025  Cold Storage
2026  The Dish
????  Micro
????  Quarto do Pânico

Writer:
1989  Apartment Zero
1990  Bad Influence
1990  Dark Angel
1990  Why Me?
1991  Toy Soldiers
1992  Death Becomes Her
1993  Carlito's Way
1993  Jurassic Park
1994  Suspicious
1994  The Paper
1994  The Shadow
1996  Mission: Impossible
1996  The Trigger Effect
1997  The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1998  Snake Eyes
1999  Stir of Echoes
2002  Panic Room
2002  Spider-Man
2004  Secret Window
2005  War of the Worlds
2005  Zathura: A Space Adventure
2008  Ghost Town
2008  Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
2009  Angels & Demons
2011  The Little Engine That Could
2012  Premium Rush
2014  Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
2015  Mortdecai
2016  Inferno
2017  The Mummy
2020  You Should Have Left
2022  Kimi
2023  Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
2024  Presence
2025  Black Bag
2025  Cold Storage
2025  Jurassic World Rebirth
2026  The Dish
????  Micro
????  Quarto do Pânico
????  Spy vs. Spy
????  The Green Hornet and Kato

Creator:
2002  Hack

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