David Koepp
David Koepp (born June 9, 1963 in Pewaukee , Wisconsin ) is an American screenwriter , producer , director and writer . His best-known works include scripts for blockbusters such as Jurassic Park , Mission: Impossible , Spider-Man and War of the Worlds .
biography
David Koepp (pronounced Kepp ) grew up in his hometown of Pewaukee and attended Catholic elementary school in St. Anthony's on the Lake. His mother is a family therapist and his father is the owner of a billboard production company . He is married to Rosario Varela, with whom he has two children.
Koepp attended and graduated from Kettle Moraine High School in Wales, Wisconsin , and worked evenings and weekends at McDonald's in Delafield. He received his bachelor's degree in film from the School of Theater, Film and Television at the University of California, Los Angeles .
Koepp worked early and quite often with Hollywood greats such as Robert Zemeckis , Ron Howard , Steven Spielberg (four times), Brian De Palma (three times). He is also the creator of the CBS drama series Hack, starring David Morse . With his fee for Panic Room (4 million US dollars) Koepp is one of the best-paid screenwriters of all.
On September 16, 2019, his first book Cold Storage - It kills was published in German.
Filmography
script
- 1988: Apartment Zero
- 1989: Why me? - Why me? (Why Me?)
- 1990: Dark Angel (I Come in Peace)
- 1990: Death Friends - Bad Influence (Bad Influence)
- 1991: Boy Soldiers (Toy Soldiers)
- 1992: Death Becomes Her (Death Becomes Her)
- 1993: Carlito's Way
- 1993: Jurassic Park
- 1994: Headlines (The Paper)
- 1994: Shadow and the Curse of Khan (The Shadow)
- 1994: Suspicious
- 1996: The Big Power Outage - A City in a State of Emergency (The Trigger Effect)
- 1996: Mission: Impossible
- 1997: The Lost World: Jurassic Park (The Lost World: Jurassic Park)
- 1998: Game on Time (Snake Eyes)
- 1999: Echoes - Voices from the Intermediate World (Stir of Echoes)
- 2002: Panic Room
- 2002: Spider-Man
- 2002–2004: Hack (TV series, also creator and producer)
- 2004: The Secret Window
- 2005: War of the Worlds (War of the Worlds)
- 2005: Zathura - An Adventure in Space (Zathura)
- 2008: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
- 2009: Illuminati (Angels & Demons)
- 2012: Premium Rush
- 2014: Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
- 2016: Inferno
- 2017: The Mummy
Director
- 1994: Suspicious
- 1996: The Big Power Outage - A City in a State of Emergency (The Trigger Effect)
- 1999: Echoes - Voices from the Intermediate World (Stir of Echoes)
- 2003: Suspense (TV movie)
- 2004: The Secret Window
- 2008: Who the Ghosts Love (Ghost Town)
- 2012: Premium Rush
- 2015: Mortdecai - The part-time crook (Mortdecai)
Audio book
- 2019 Cold Storage - It kills Speaker: David Nathan Year of publication 2019, Publisher: HarperCollins at Lübbe Audio, 2019 HarperCollins at Lübbe Audio
Awards
Saturn Award (best script)
- 1993: Nominated for Death Suits Her
- 1994: Won for Jurassic Park
- 2005: Nominated for War of the Worlds
Golden Raspberry (worst script)
- 1997: Nominated for Mission: Impossible
- 1998: Nominated for Forgotten World: Jurassic Park
- 2018: Nominated for The Mummy
Individual evidence
- ^ Rebecca Seymour: David Koepp: The magic behind the movies. Retrieved July 24, 2020 (American English).
- ↑ http://www.filmreference.com/film/89/David-Koepp.html
- ↑ http://www.tft.ucla.edu/news/announcement/74-richard-walter-tft-professor/ ( Memento from October 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Cold Storage - It Kills. Retrieved December 9, 2019 .
Web links
- David Koepp in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koepp, David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pewaukee , Wisconsin |