Exclusive: Mason Gooding, Algee Smith, Keith Powers talk The Gates and working with James Van Der Beek
Hitting theaters on March 13 is the thriller The Gates, written and directed by John Burr and starring Mason Gooding, Algee Smith, James Van Der Beek, Algee Smith, Keith Powers, and Brad Leland. This is also the very last film from actor James Van Der Beek as he passed away recently.
The film follows three college students (Gooding, Smith, 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.
Produced by Nancy Leopardi, Ross Kohn, and Gary Glushon.
Blackfilmandtv.com's Wilson Morales talks to Mason Gooding, Algee Smith, Keith Powers about The Gates and working with James Van Der Beek.