{"id":2288062,"date":"2026-02-18T20:57:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2288062"},"modified":"2026-02-18T20:57:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:57:16","slug":"james-van-der-beeks-final-movie-revealed-the-gates-trailer-shows-late-actor-as-evil-pastor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/james-van-der-beeks-final-movie-revealed-the-gates-trailer-shows-late-actor-as-evil-pastor\/","title":{"rendered":"James Van Der Beek\u2019s Final Movie Revealed: \u2018The Gates\u2019 Trailer Shows Late Actor as Evil Pastor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The late James Van Der Beek<\/a> will make his final film appearance in \u201cThe Gates<\/a>,\u201d where he stars as an evil pastor named Jacob, as revealed in the trailer.<\/p>\n

Directed by John Burr<\/a> (\u201cLegend of the Muse\u201d), the upcoming thriller will be in theaters March 13. In addition to Van Der Beek, the cast includes Mason Gooding<\/a>, Algee Smith<\/a>, Keith Powers<\/a>, and Brad Leland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Gates<\/a>\u201d tells the story of three friends who witness a murder while driving through a gated community. The trio finds itself targeted by a sinister pastor (Van Der Beek) and must face off against him and the neighborhood\u2019s suspicious residents to survive.<\/p>\n

In the trailer, Van Der Beek\u2019s character proclaims, \u201cI have been called upon to lead this community, and those boys seek to destroy us. Find them, and let God\u2019s will be done.\u201d Holding the trio at gunpoint, he later adds, \u201cYou…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The late James Van Der Beek will make his final film appearance in \u201cThe Gates,\u201d where he stars as an evil pastor named Jacob, as revealed in the trailer. Directed by John Burr (\u201cLegend of the Muse\u201d), the upcoming thriller will be in theaters March 13. In addition to Van Der Beek, the cast includes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2288063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2288062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/James-Van-Der-Beeks-Final-Movie-Revealed-\u2018The-Gates-Trailer.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2288062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2288064,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288062\/revisions\/2288064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2288063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2288062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2288062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2288062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}