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 Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
Suggested by matthewsimmons
If Lucas had produced but had others write and direct the trilogy. Obi Wan would be the protagonist, Anakin would be older when discovered, Qui-Gon would have a smaller role as Kenobi’s old master, Kenobi has just became a Jedi Knight, Jar Jar would be serious and talk normal, Romance would be hinted at between Padmé and both Anakin and Obi Wan. Maul would kill Qui Gon followed by Kenobi cutting off his legs and him falling down a giant hole, however he would found by Jango Fett at the end. Fett would be introduced as well as young Boba and the clones. Kenobi would start the film doing an investigation that would lead him to finding them much like in the original 2nd film. In a lot of ways this would combined elements from both episodes 1&2.
