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David Koepp (/kɛp/; 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 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 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article David Koepp, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
An eccentric billionaire, fascinated by the various World's mythologies, recently "purchased" a forest island located in a remote corner of the Pacific, which seemed unknown to everyone for a long time. After having a mansion built there, he commissioned major research into the ruins of an ancient city, thinking that he would find something truly part of history there and maintain the name of his family in the collective imagination. For a weekend, he decides to go there in person with part of his team, in order to be there for the big moment. Only, the day after their arrival, they're taken hostage by soldiers, in armored outfits and with very advanced weapons, commanded by a mysterious rival, who wants to reap this discovery's laureal, thinking that what is under the ruins will allow him to establish his domination over the rest of the world ! However, by digging too deep and too greedily, humans will free creatures that have been trapped in a state of prolonged slumber for centuries. Even the war criminals weaponry is not enough to slow down this creatures and our protagonists flee into the woods. What follows is a fierce fight for survival, in a place far from everything, where the worst monsters are possibly not those we believe in !
