David 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
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