Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Spouse
Melissa Thomas
Children
4
Awards
WGA East's Ian McLellan Hunter Award for Career Achievement
Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation
Saturn Award for Best Writing
Fantastic'Arts Grand Prize
David Koepp (/kɛp/;[1] 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.[2] 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).
^"122. David Koepp Interview, Part 2 (Screenwriter of 'Mission: Impossible')". Light the Fuse Podcast (Podcast). October 16, 2020. Event occurs at 34:45. Retrieved February 17, 2022.
^"Box Office Mojo – People Index". Boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved July 6, 2019.
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