You won’t have to wait long after Scream 7 opens next week to see Mason Gooding back on the big screen, as The Gates will hit select theaters on March 13 via Lionsgate.
The thriller also marks the final film of James Van Der Beek (“Dawson’s Creek”), who passed away last week.
Watch the trailer below, which also features Algee Smith (“Euphoria”), Keith Powers (The Tomorrow War), and Brad Leland (“Friday Night Lights”).
The film follows three college students (Gooding, Smith, and Powers) on a road trip gone wrong. The trio takes an ill-advised shortcut through a remote gated community, where they find themselves trapped after witnessing a murder.
Over the course of the night, they are blamed, hunted and fractured by their own differing belief systems, while the perpetrator (Van Der Beek) emerges as the cunning patriarch who holds the entire community under his influence.
Writer-director John Burr (Muse) shared a statement with Collider about Van Der Beek’s passing. It reads, in part:
“Even though he is no longer with us, his energy somehow feels like it lives on, bringing us all back together again, inspiring us to live life the way he did. I am grateful for that. And so, on behalf of the entire filmmaking team, I’d like to express our heartbreak at James’ passing, and our joy to have been so lucky to know him.”
Nancy Leopardi, Ross Kohn, and Gary Glushon produce. Executive producers include Gooding, Andy Dube, Michael Leon Cassutt, John Harris, J. Todd Harris, David Gendron, Ali Jazayeri, Viviana Zarragoitia, and Kamala Avila-Salmon.
The Gates is rated R for “violence, language, some sexual references, and brief drug use.”
