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David Koepp

Born 1963 · American screenwriter and director (1963-)

David Koepp is an American screenwriter and director. As of February 2026, he is the fourth most successful screenwriter of all time in terms of U.S. box office receipts with a total gross of over $2.97 billion.

David Koepp, in order

  1. 1980 Virus: wrote · directed by Kinji Fukasaku
  2. 1988 Apartment Zero: wrote, produced · directed by Martin Donovan
  3. 1990 Bad Influence: wrote · directed by Curtis Hanson
  4. 1990 I Come in Peace: wrote · directed by Craig R. Baxley
  5. 1990 Why Me?: wrote · directed by Gene Quintano
  6. 1991 Toy Soldiers: wrote · directed by Daniel Petrie · critics 47%, audiences 66% · streaming on Prime Video, Roku Channel, Fawesome
  7. 1992 Death Becomes Her: wrote · directed by Robert Zemeckis · critics 58%, audiences 62% · streaming on Prime Video
  8. 1993 Carlito's Way: wrote · directed by Brian De Palma · critics 84%, audiences 91% · streaming on Prime Video, Starz
  9. 1993 Jurassic Park: wrote · directed by Steven Spielberg · critics 91%, audiences 91% · streaming on Peacock, Philo, Starz
  10. 1994 The Paper: wrote, produced · directed by Ron Howard · critics 86%, audiences 67%
  11. 1994 The Shadow: wrote · directed by Russell Mulcahy
  12. 1996 Mission: Impossible: wrote · directed by Brian De Palma · critics 65%, audiences 71% · streaming on Paramount+, Kanopy
  13. 1996 The Trigger Effect: directed, wrote
  14. 1997 The Lost World: Jurassic Park: wrote, acted · directed by Steven Spielberg · critics 57%, audiences 52% · streaming on Philo, Starz
  15. 1998 Snake Eyes: wrote · directed by Brian De Palma · critics 43%, audiences 36% · streaming on Hoopla
  16. 1999 Stir of Echoes: directed, wrote
  17. 2002 Big Trouble: acted · directed by Barry Sonnenfeld
  18. 2002 Hack (TV series): directed, created
  19. 2002 Panic Room: wrote, produced · directed by David Fincher · critics 76%, audiences 64% · streaming on Pluto TV
  20. 2002 Spider-Man: wrote · directed by Sam Raimi · critics 90%, audiences 67% · streaming on Disney+, fuboTV
  21. 2002 Spider-Man in film (TV series): wrote · directed by Jon Watts and Marc Webb
  22. 2003 Stuck on You: wrote · directed by Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly · critics 61%, audiences 35%
  23. 2004 Secret Window: directed, wrote
  24. 2005 War of the Worlds: wrote · directed by Steven Spielberg · critics 76%, audiences 42% · streaming on Paramount+, Kanopy, Hoopla
  25. 2005 Zathura: A Space Adventure: wrote · directed by Jon Favreau · critics 77%, audiences 52% · streaming on Netflix
  26. 2008 Ghost Town: directed, wrote
  27. 2008 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: wrote · directed by Steven Spielberg · critics 77%, audiences 53% · streaming on Prime Video, fuboTV, Paramount+
  28. 2009 Angels & Demons: wrote · directed by Ron Howard · critics 36%, audiences 57% · streaming on Starz
  29. 2011 The Little Engine That Could: wrote · directed by Elliot M. Bour
  30. 2012 Premium Rush: directed, wrote
  31. 2014 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit: wrote · directed by Kenneth Branagh · critics 55%, audiences 52% · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Paramount+
  32. 2015 Mortdecai: directed
  33. 2016 Inferno: wrote · directed by Ron Howard · critics 23%, audiences 36% · streaming on Netflix
  34. 2017 The Mummy: wrote · directed by Alex Kurtzman · critics 15%, audiences 35% · streaming on Netflix, HBO Max
  35. 2020 You Should Have Left: directed, wrote
  36. 2022 Kimi: wrote · directed by Steven Soderbergh
  37. 2023 Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny: wrote · directed by James Mangold · critics 71%, audiences 87% · streaming on Disney+
  38. 2024 Presence: wrote · directed by Steven Soderbergh · critics 87%, audiences 52% · streaming on Hulu, Kanopy
  39. 2025 Black Bag: wrote · directed by Steven Soderbergh · critics 96%, audiences 70% · streaming on Hulu
  40. 2025 Jurassic World Rebirth: wrote · directed by Gareth Edwards · critics 50%, audiences 70% · streaming on Netflix
  41. 2026 Cold Storage: wrote, produced · directed by Jonny Campbell · critics 80%, audiences 75% · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Philo
  42. 2026 Disclosure Day: wrote · directed by Steven Spielberg · critics 79%, audiences 69% · streaming on Peacock