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David Koepp is an American screenwriter and director. Koepp is the fourth most successful screen writer of all time in terms of domestic box office receipts with totals at just over $2 billion. As a writer, Koepp has worked on such blockbuster Hollywood films such as Jurassic Park, Mission... Impossible, and Spider-Man. Koepp had a cameo as the "Unlucky Bastard" in The Lost World: Jurassic Park, in which he was serving as Writer and Second Unit Director. He is the man who gets eaten by the T-Rex in San Diego. His work as a director has not had quite the same box office success; films include Secret Window, Stir of Echoes, and The Trigger Effect. Koepp was reportedly paid $4,000,000 for his Panic Room screenplay. He also created the 2002 television series Hack starring David Morse. He wrote the screenplay for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and co-wrote and directed 2008's Ghost Town starring Ricky Gervais and Greg Kinnear. In 2012, Koepp directed Premium Rush which he co-wrote with John Kamps. In an August 2011 lawsuit, Joe Quirk, the author of the 1998 novel Ultimate Rush accused Koepp and the makers of Premium Rush of copyright infringement.
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