Screenwriter

Jack Epps Jr.

1984–presentComedyAdventureDramaAction

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The Screenplays

12 total writing credits

WRITER

Top Gun: Maverick

2022

Characters

WRITER

Top Gun

1986

Writer

SCR

Full Writing Credits

2025AnacondaOriginal Film Writer5.9 2022Top Gun: MaverickCharacters8.2 2004Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood OrchidStory5.5 2000The Flintstones in Viva Rock VegasScreenplay4.8 1997AnacondaWriter5.3 1990Dick TracyScreenplay

About

Jack Epps Jr. (born November 3, 1949) is an American screenwriter, author, and educator known chiefly for such popular 1980s films as Top Gun, Legal Eagles, and The Secret of My Success, which he wrote with longtime partner Jim Cash. Epps Jr. graduated from the College of Arts and Letters at Michigan State University and has since gone on to teach at the University of Southern California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack Epps Jr., licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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