Ben Affleck still has one final account to close.
Speaking with Collider at SXSW, The Accountant director Gavin O’Connor revealed the franchise has always been viewed as a trilogy of films.
“There’s always been three. Since post-production, since I started editing the first one,” he shared. “I didn’t know Bill [Dubuque]. We met on the first movie. I got the script from Lynette Howell Taylor, and then from the script that I initially got, I started working with Bill. I think any filmmaker’s going to do it. You get a script, you respond to it. How does it affect you personally? But then you keep climbing inside of it. It becomes your own aesthetic and sensibility.”
While Amazon MGM Studios has not yet announced a third film, screenwriter Bill Dubuque clearly knows where to take Affleck’s title character, Christian Wolff, in the threequel.
The Accountant 2 will be released nine years after the original movie. According to the synopsis for the sequel, “Christian Wolff (Affleck) has a talent for solving complex problems. When an old acquaintance is murdered, leaving behind a cryptic message to ‘find the accountant,’ Wolff is compelled to solve the case. Realizing more extreme measures are necessary, Wolff recruits his estranged and highly lethal brother, Brax (Jon Bernthal), to help. In partnership with U.S. Treasury Deputy Director Marybeth Medina (Cynthia Addai-Robinson), they uncover a deadly conspiracy, becoming targets of a ruthless network of killers who will stop at nothing to keep their secrets buried.”
The Accountant 2 hits theaters on April 25, 2025.
Are you a fan of The Accountant? Are you excited to learn that a trilogy has been carefully mapped out since 2016?
