OCEANA COUNTY, MI - A Hollywood director and screenwriter has confirmed that his son died after being taken to an area hospital from the Electric Forest music festival.

Rod Lurie said in a Tweet the early morning of July 6 that his son, Hunter Lurie, died of cardiac arrest.

"There were 40,000 people at the @Electric_Forest festival and he was the only one to die," Lurie said, adding, "My God, I miss him already."

In an earlier Facebook post, Lurie said his 27-year-old son died on July 2 at Mercy Health in Muskegon.

Temperatures climbed into the 90s for the second four-day weekend -- June 28-July 1 -- of the annual festival held in Rothbury, north of Muskegon.

Hunter Lurie, of California, suffered a medical emergency at Electric Forest on June 29 and he was taken to Mercy in Muskegon where he later died on July 2, according to a news release from the Michigan State Police Hart Post. An autopsy was completed on July 3, and the report is pending, according to the news release.

Rod Lurie wrote and directed "The Contender" in 2000 and "Nothing But the Truth" in 2008 and and directed "The Last Castle" in 2001 and "Straw Dogs" in 2011.

He also directed the "Line of Fire" TV series in 2003-04 and was the creator and executive producer of the "Commander in Chief" TV series.