Warner Brothers Pictures are pushing ahead with a sequel to last year’s The Accountant. The action thriller, which starred Ben Affleck as the title character Christian Wolff, a numbers guy who also had a sideline in contract killing. More on The Accountant movie sequel below.
Accountant movie sequel confirmed by Warner Brothers!
According to Deadline, Gavin O’Connor, screenwriter Bill Dubuque and Ben Affleck are all expected to return, as is Jon Bernthal, who also appeared in the original.
The first movie saw Affleck a maths genius who works out of a generic office named ZZZ Accounting in Plainfield, Illinois, a small village in middle America. There, he cooks the books for various crime families and takes calls from ‘The Voice’, a mysterious entity who tasks him with different jobs with a more physical demand. Covering his tracks to perfection, Wolff manages to keep Treasury Agent Ray King (J.K. Simmons) at arms length as he relentlessly pursues him. Just months from retirement, and at his wits end, King brings on board young agent Marybeth Medina (Cynthia Addai-Robinson) to help him track Wolff down before he hangs up his spurs for good.
Meanwhile, Wolff has been hired by a huge firm to un-cook its books when an amount of money goes missing. It is there where he meets Anna Kendrick‘s accounting assistant Dana Cummings whose life is put in immediate danger and the two soon find themselves on the run from both Agents King and Medina and relentless, unknown assassins.
We loved the first film when it hit theatres in 2016 and always thought there may be scope for further stories surrounding the central character, as does the WB who are backing the new movie.
No news on when The Accountant movie sequel may enter production, but as always we’ll keep you posted.
