David Koepp (born June 9, 1963 in Pewaukee, Wisconsin) is an American screenwriter and director. He attended Kettle Moraine High School in Wales, WI, and received his bachelors in film from UCLA. As a writer, he has worked on such blockbuster Hollywood films as Jurassic Park, Mission Impossible, and Spider-Man. His work as a director has not had quite the same box office success; films include Secret Window, Stir of Echoes, and The Trigger Effect.

David Koepp was reportedly paid $4,000,000 for his Panic Room screenplay. He also created the 2002 television series Hack starring David Morse.

He has recently wrote the screenplay for Indiana Jones 4.

Filmography

Written by:

• Spider-Man 4 (2010) (rumored)
• Sins of the Round Table (2008)
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
• War of the Worlds (2005)
• Zathura (2005)
• Secret Window (2004)
• Spider-Man (2002)
• Panic Room (2002)
• Stir of Echoes (1999)
• Snake Eyes (1998)
• The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
• Men in Black (Uncredited) (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)
• I Come In Peace (1990)
• Bad Influence (1990)
• Apartment Zero (1988)

Directed by:

• Secret Window (2004)
• Suspense (2003) (TV)
• Stir of Echoes (1999)
• The Trigger Effect (1996)
• Suspicious (1994)

Controversial remarks about symbolism in War of the Worlds

In July 2005 Koepp garnered some controversy for remarks he made in an interview that the Martian invaders in War of the Worlds represented the American military, while they randomly killed humans representing Iraqi civilians. [1]

Trivia

• Did an uncredited rewrite of the screenplay to Men in Black after requested by Steven Spielberg to do one. Also was asked to write the screenplay for Men in Black II, but declined because of his work on the screenplay to Spider-Man
• Surname pronounced "Kepp".
• Has a cameo as the "Unlucky Bastard" in The Lost World: Jurassic Park.
• Directed second unit for The Lost World and used some B-roll footage of the cliffhanging sequence in Secret Window.

External links

• David Koepp at the Internet Movie Database

• 2007 FilmStew.com interview with screenwriter David Koepp about Indiana Jones 4 by Daniel Robert Epstein