Part Stephen King, part Stir of Echoes.

David Koepp isn't too eager to tackle another superhero right now.

David Koepp is one of the most prolific and successful writers in Hollywood history, having penned a huge list of box office hits, including Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible, Spider-Man, Panic Room and War of the Worlds. As a writer-director, Koepp chooses smaller, but equally thrilling movies like The Trigger Effect, Stir of Echoes, Secret Window and Ghost Town. His latest film as a writer-director, You Should Have Left, is a spooky haunted house thriller starring his Stir of Echoes leading man Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried as a couple who rents an ultra-modern, very spooky house …

What are the elements needed for a successful thriller? You Should Have Left writer-director David Koepp weighs in on what he believes are the key ingredients to make such a psychological thriller work.

If there’s one thing you can say about fans, it’s that they’re opinionated.

The Indiana Jones 5 script is going through some big changes...again.

From Jurassic Park, to Spider-Man, to Indiana Jones 5, we cover it all.

The 2002 film Spider-Man, along with 2000’s X-Men, is largely responsible for setting the tone of the current era of superhero blockbusters. When Spider-Man hit theaters in 2002, it was an absolute monster hit at the box office, setting an all-time opening weekend record with $114 million. It also set the tone for how comic book adaptations could toe the line between feeling grounded on a character level, but also allowing for high-flying spectacle when it came to the superheroics. David Koepp, the screenwriter behind blockbuster hits like Jurassic Park and Mission: Impossible, was …

We recently spoke with writer/director David Koepp, whose terrific new horror movie You Should Have Left, makes its debut on VOD next week from Universal and Blumhouse. Koepp wrote and directed You Should Have Left, but is primarily known as one of the most successful screenwriters in Hollywood history, having penned such juggernauts as Jurassic Park, Spider-Man, Mission: Impossible, War of the Worlds and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. For a while he had been working on the perpetually delayed fifth Indiana Jones movie, but Koepp told us that wasn’t the case anymore. …

Earlier this week, we spoke with the lovely and obnoxiously talented David Koepp for an upcoming episode of our interview series Collider Connected. Koepp's new film as a writer/director, You Should Have Left, opens next week. You Should Have Left is a spooky haunted house thriller with Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried, and its connection to both the horror genre and to studio Universal had us wondering what the status of his Bride of Frankenstein script was. If you’ll recall, Bride of Frankenstein was initially planned as one of the bigger, starrier entries in the failed Dark …

David Koepp, one of the most successful screenwriters in Hollywood history, is returning with a low-budget thriller he wrote and directed for Blumhouse Productions called You Should Have Left. And – surprise! – it’s on VOD next week. You can even watch the trailer right now. [caption id="attachment_901915" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via Blumhouse/Universal[/caption] Koepp, whose resume includes blockbusters like Jurassic Park, Spider-Man, Mission: Impossible, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, has more esoteric choices when it comes to the projects that he both writes and directs, veering from Stephen King …

Hollywood can't quite crack the secret of Indiana Jones 5. The project has bounced around for years, pretty much since the debut of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, with numerous creative teams unable to come up with a suitable way to toss around a 77-year-old treasure hunter without literally killing Harrison Ford. (Among other problems, assumedly.) A year ago, Solo writer Jonathan Kasdan was hired to pen the script with eyes on a 2020 release date, but those plans fell through because of story problems and Steven Spielberg turning his attention to West …