Trailer for James Van Der Beek’s remaining movie earlier than bowel most cancers dying launched

A trailer for the ultimate movie undertaking that James Van Der Beek starred in previous to his dying has been launched.

The actor handed away earlier this month after battling bowel most cancers, along with his household asserting that he confronted his ‘remaining days with braveness, religion and charm’.

A GoFundMe was arrange in honour of the father-of-six following his passing on 11 February, which has raised greater than $2.6million in donations.

Every week on from the dying of the Dawson’s Creek star, a trailer for The Gates – his final Hollywood function earlier than his passing – was launched.

The teaser for the movie starring Mason Gooding, Keith Powers and Algee Smith dropped on Wednesday (18 February).

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The Gates, which is written and directed John Burr, is ready to launch subsequent month. It is the filmmaker’s second function, following his debut with the supernatural thriller Muse.

The official synopsis for the chilling flick reads: “Three faculty college students Derek, Kevin, and Tyon (Gooding, Smith, and Powers) on a highway journey gone incorrect, because the three younger males take an ill-advised shortcut via a distant gated neighborhood, the place they discover themselves trapped behind the partitions after witnessing a homicide.

“Over the course of the night time, they discover themselves blamed, hunted, and fractured by their very own differing perception programs, whereas the perpetrator – James Van Der Beek, at his most charming and terrifying – emerges because the crafty patriarch that holds all the neighborhood below his affect.”

Van Der Beek is survived by his spouse Kimberly and their six youngsters – daughters Olivia, Annabel, Emilia and Gwendolyn, and sons Joshua and Jeremiah.

In November 2024, the actor introduced that he had been recognized with stage three colorectal most cancers.

Talking to People in 2024, he defined that the most cancers had been found after a routine colonoscopy in 2023, with him saying he’d skilled ‘a change in bowel habits’ and thought he would possibly want to change his weight loss plan a bit.

As a substitute, he defined he’d woken up and was ‘popping out of the haze’ when he was knowledgeable he had most cancers.

He stated: “I’ve colorectal most cancers. I’ve been privately coping with this analysis and have been taking steps to resolve it, with the assist of my unimaginable household.

“There’s cause for optimism, and I’m feeling good.”

Final November, the actor had stated he was planning on promoting Dawson’s Creek memorabilia to fund his most cancers remedy, having informed People he’d determined it was time.