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Disclosure Day Raises a Big Question: How Do You Talk to Aliens?
News · June 12, 2026How do you create a functional alien language for the big screen? How might you create one in real life? The latest episode of Science Quickly ponders these questions with help from David, linguist Jeffrey Punske, and Steven Spielberg. Read More »
David Discusses Disclosure Day with Slant Magazine
News · June 9, 2026David chats with Marshall Shaffer about his long collaboration with Steven Spielberg, and what he hopes viewers will take away from their new film. Read More »
How 30 Years in the Trenches with Spielberg, Aliens, Indy and Dinosaurs Led to Disclosure Day
News · June 8, 2026David chats with Den of Geek about his three decades of work with Steven Spielberg, from Jurassic Park to Disclosure Day, and how their collaboration has evolved. Read More »
David Koepp’s Scripts Have Fueled $3 Billion in Box Office. He’s Still Learning.
News · May 28, 2026David tells MovieMaker about the fresh approach he and Steven Spielberg took in the writing of Disclosure Day. "Each draft we did only from one of the characters’ points of view. Everybody got this real focus of attention for a sustained period of time as a character in the script process, which I think makes it a little more emotionally truthful." Read More »
David Discusses Disclosure Day with Vanity Fair
News · May 19, 2026David speaks with Darryn King about Disclosure Day, his collaborations with Steven Spielberg, and whether he thinks aliens are really out there. Read More »
David Digs Into Black Bag With Script Magazine
News · September 3, 2025David talks to Script Magazine's Andrew Bloomenthal about Black Bag, MacGuffins, and writing on spec. Read More »
‘Jurassic World Rebirth’ Writer David Koepp on Making the New Movie Less, Well, Goofy
News · July 3, 2025David Koepp chats with The Hollywood Reporter's James Hibberd about his return to the world of 'Jurassic.' Read More »
Weaving a Web of Secrecy and Lies: An Exclusive Q&A With David Koepp
News · March 14, 2025Focus Features talks to David about the writing of Black Bag, his latest collaboration with Steven Soderbergh. Read More »
‘It Begins With a Very Long Dinner Party’: David Talks Black Bag With Creative Screenwriting
News · March 11, 2025Creative Screenwriting talks to David about spycraft, and its effects on the lives and relationships of the people doing the spying. Read More »
Presence’s Steven Soderbergh and Screenwriter David Koepp on Reinventing the Ghost Story
News · January 24, 2025The Kimi and Black Bag team on why POV-shot movies tend to not work, the Sundance vibe shift, why Soderbergh's 2024 watchlist was so full of Star Wars stuff, and the importance of saying “no” to anything you can't say “Hell yeah” to. Read More »
