David Koepp (born June 9, 1963) is an American screenwriter, director, producer, actor and composer who wrote the scripts for Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Jurassic World: Rebirth. He also had cameo in The Lost World: Jurassic Park, in which he plays an unfortunate San Diego resident who gets singled out and devoured by the rampaging male Tyrannosaurus rex. He was also the film's second unit director.
Other notable films Koepp has written include Carlito's Way (1993), Mission: Impossible (1996), Snake Eyes (1998), Spider Man (2002), War of the Worlds (2005), and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008). As a director he has helmed films such as Secret Window (2004), Ghost Town (2008), and Mortdecai (2015).
Koepp is the sixth most successful screenwriter of all time in terms of U.S. box office receipts, having grossed over $2.3 billion.
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Selected filmography[]
- Jurassic World: Rebirth (2025)
- Angels and Demons (2009)
- Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull (2008)
- Ghost Town (2008)
- Zathura (2005)
- War of the Worlds (2005)
- Secret Window (2004)
- Hack (2002) (TV)
- Spider-Man (2002)
- Panic Room (2002)
- Stir of Echoes (1999)
- Snake Eyes (1998)
- The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
- The Trigger Effect (1996)
- Mission: Impossible (1996)
- Suspicious (1994)
- The Shadow (1994)
- The Paper (1994)
- Carlito's Way (1993)
- Jurassic Park (1993)
- Death Becomes Her (1992)
- Toy Soldiers (1991)
- Bad Influence (1990)
- Apartment Zero (1988)