
Age: 63
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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.

David Koepp

Writer
for Writer in Rise of the Prince of Crime (2004)
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Gotham City, the underworld holds the city in its hand, with the Falcone family at the top, led by "The Roman", but times are about to change. As the first rumors of a "big bat beating on criminals" begin to swirl around the slums, a strange, clown-like criminal steps up to help the Falcone family run the town as henchman. Carmine decides to hire him, but the one he has just brought into his gang to his own projects, starting to hire very original criminals, in his genre, to form a small gang that will be fatal to the traditional mafia. All gangsters have their origin story, discover that of the worst of them : the Joker !