A new thriller from the scriptwriter of Jurassic Park and Spider-Man is headed to Netflix
polygon.comDavid Koepp is high on the list of “writers whose work you definitely know, even if you don’t remember their names.” Koepp’s name is all over modern blockbuster cinema: He wrote 2002’s Spider-Man, the first of Sam Raimi’s trilogy about the wall-crawling superhero, and adapted Michael Crichton’s novel Jurassic Park into the first film in the ongoing dinosaur franchise. He co-wrote the first of Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible movies, and the first (and last) of the stillborn Dark Universe movies, The Mummy, also starring Cruise. He wrote the 1993 cult crime classic Carlito’s Way, starring Al Pacino and Sean Penn, and the propulsive 2022 thriller Kimi, currently one of our contenders for the best movies of 2022.
Koepp also wrote or co-wrote David Fincher’s Panic Room, Ron Howard’s The Paper, Robert Zemeckis’ dark comedic fantasy Death Becomes Her, and Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Whether you love or hate any of those movies, you’ve almost certainly seen his work on screen.
Koepp is also a director — his films include the creepy Kevin Bacon ghost story Stir of Echoes, the propulsive Joseph Gordon-Levitt action movie Premium Rush, and the deeply weird Johnny Depp movie Mortdecai. And in 2019, he became a novelist with the bioterrorism thriller Cold Storage. His latest book, Aurora, has been optioned for a Netflix adaptation, which publisher HarperCollins says will be directed by The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty, and Strange Days director Kathryn Bigelow.
Aurora is a Crichton-like “scientific thriller” based on real-world predictions about the possible outcomes of a large-scale geomagnetic storm on modern society. The novel centers around two locales: In Aurora, Illinois, a woman
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