Description:
David Koepp is an American film director and screenwriter. He is known for writing Mission Impossible, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Spider-Man directed by Sam Raimi and Panic Room directed by David Fincher, and the screenplay adaptations of Jurassic Park directed by Steven Spielberg, The Lost World: Jurassic Park (both written by Michael Crichton). He also directed You Should Have Left starring Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried.
Birthday
June 9, 1963
Born In
Pewaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Alternative names
Dave Koepp
, Leonard Maas Jr.
Height
191 cm
Spouse/Ex-
Melissa Thomas ()
Trivia
In an interview, he claimed that one of the things that inspired him to write movies was the scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark in which the buildup for a bull whip and scimitar fight ends up with Indy shooting the swordsman. Ironically, this scene was not conceived by the writer, but was the result of an offhand remark during shooting.
Quotes
[on Frank Darabont's rejected screenplay for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)] I've never actually met Frank Darabont, but I hear he's a lovely guy. Just for the record, the Indiana Jones jumping into the fridge bit is in the Darabont script. And I loved it, which is why I pushed it into the movie! I thought it was a great idea![Jan.2015]
Salaries
$4,000,000
Trademarks
Often writes big-budget action-adventures (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), War of the Worlds (2005), Spider-Man (2002), Mission: Impossible (1996), Jurassic Park (1993)).
