Action movie producer Sean Stone, who worked on films starring John Travolta and Bruce Willis, has died months after receiving a devastating diagnosis. He was 31.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Stone died on Tuesday (Wednesday in Australia) at a hospital in New Jersey.
His family told the publication that he had been diagnosed with metastatic neuroendocrine cancer of the colon – a rare form of cancer that grows and spreads aggressively – in July.
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Raised in New Jersey, Stone moved to Los Angeles in 2017 to pursue his movie-producing dream after graduating from the University of Arizona.
He started his career with Creative Artists Agency (CAA) working under Alyssa Milano‘s husband Dave Bugliari and then Johnny Depp‘s manager Jack Whigham, before moving to Emmett/Furla in 2020, where he worked as an assistant.
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Stone then started freelancing as an executive producer on movie projects, including multiple features released in 2022.
These included Hot Seat, staring Australian actor Mel Gibson and Entourage star Kevin Dillon, Wrong Place starring Bruce Willis and Twilight‘s Ashley Greene, and Wire Room, starring Dillon and Willis.
Wire Room was released in September 2022, six months after Willis’ family revealed his aphasia diagnosis, which had, by February 2023, progressed to frontotemporal dementia.
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Stone also produced Cash Out, an action film starring John Travolta and Sex and the City‘s Kristin Davis, which is set to be released in April.
He leaves behind his parents, David and Ileen, his siblings, Ashley, Justin, Michael, Mallory and Brian, his brother-in-law and two sisters-in-law, and his two nieces.
His final project, Cash Out 2: High Rollers, is currently in post-production.