Claim: David Koepp is a writer.

David Koepp -LRB- born June 9 , 1963 -RRB- is an American screenwriter and director . Koepp is the fifth 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 -LRB- 1993 -RRB- , The Lost World : Jurassic Park -LRB- 1997 -RRB- , and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull -LRB- 2008 -RRB- ; the action spy films Mission : Impossible -LRB- 1996 -RRB- and Jack Ryan : Shadow Recruit -LRB- 2014 -RRB- ; the superhero film Spider-Man -LRB- 2002 -RRB- ; the sci-fi disaster film War of the Worlds -LRB- 2005 -RRB- and the mystery thriller Angels & Demons -LRB- 2009 -RRB- . Koepp has directed six films over the course of his career : The Trigger Effect -LRB- 1996 -RRB- , Stir of Echoes -LRB- 1999 -RRB- , Secret Window -LRB- 2004 -RRB- , Ghost Town -LRB- 2008 -RRB- , Premium Rush -LRB- 2012 -RRB- , and Mortdecai -LRB- 2015 -RRB- .