While attending Kettle Moraine High School in Wales, Wisconsin, he worked evenings and weekends at the McDonald's restaurant in Delafield. Koepp was born in Pewaukee, Wisconsin as the youngest of four children, to Donald Koepp, who owned a billboard company, and a family therapist mother. 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). 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 achieved both critical and commercial success in a wide variety of genres: thriller, science fiction, comedy, action, drama, crime, superhero, horror, adventure, and fantasy. box office receipts with a total gross of over $2.3 billion. Koepp is the ninth most successful screenwriter of all time in terms of U.S.

Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentationĭavid Koepp ( / k ɛ p/ born June 9, 1963) is an American filmmaker.

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