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David Koepp
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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 U.S. box office receipts, wit…
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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 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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Disclosure Day
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2026
Cold Storage
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2025
Quarto do Pânico
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Jurassic World Rebirth
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2025
Black Bag
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2025
Presence
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2023
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
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2022
Kimi
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2020
You Should Have Left
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2017
Spielberg
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2017
The Mummy
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2016
Tom Hanks: A League of His Own
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2016
Inferno
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2015
Mortdecai
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2014
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
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2012
Premium Rush
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2011
The Little Engine That Could
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2009
Angels & Demons
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2008
Indiana Jones 4: The Return of a Legend
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2008
Ghost Town
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2008
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
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2005
Zathura: A Space Adventure
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2005
War of the Worlds
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2004
Secret Window
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2003
The Making of 'Carlito's Way'
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2002
Hack
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2002
Spider-Man
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2002
Big Trouble
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2002
Panic Room
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1999
Stir of Echoes
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1998
Snake Eyes
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1997
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
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1997
The Making of 'The Lost World'
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1996
The Trigger Effect
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1996
Mission: Impossible
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