Just two days before his sudden passing, Patrick Muldoon posted on Instagram with the kind of pure, uncomplicated excitement that only comes from someone standing at the beginning of something they genuinely believe in — announcing his role as producer on Kockroach, a major feature starring Chris Hemsworth, Taron Egerton, and Zazie Beetz, currently filming in Australia.

Variety It was the post of a man with everything ahead of him, a career that after decades of beloved work on Days of Our Lives, Melrose Place, and Starship Troopers was entering an exciting new chapter — and then, on Sunday morning, after having coffee with his girlfriend in their Beverly Hills home, Patrick Muldoon suffered a sudden heart attack and was gone at just 57 years old. TMZ The Kockroach cast and crew, who had been working alongside a man they had only just begun to know, found themselves on a film set in Australia processing a grief nobody had prepared for — and what they have chosen to do in Patrick’s memory, pausing a major Hollywood production to honor the producer who never got to see it finished, is the kind of gesture that says everything about the man he clearly was and the impression he left on every single person fortunate enough to work beside him.