Though Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal reunite for some an action-packed bromance in The Accountant 2, one acquainted face is lacking from the sequel.
Franchise director Gavin O’Connor just lately teased that he plans to have Anna Kendrick reprise her function as accountant Dana Cummings for a future third installment, as Affleck stated he’s “simply ready for an additional nice script.”
O’Connor instructed The New York Times that he and screenwriter Bill Dubuque “have had some preliminary conversations. I’m personally working from one other puzzle film, which we’ve performed twice now. One factor weve talked about is the thought of bringing Anna Kendrick [who plays Christian’s love interest in the first movie] again. Possibly Christian can lastly get the love that he deserves.”
“We’re hoping she nonetheless likes us,” stated Affleck, to which O’Connor up to date him, “Really, Ben, she and I’ve been texting. She stated she’s one hundred percent in if we would like.”
After Kendrick’s Dana sparked romance with Affleck’s titular Christian Wolff within the authentic 2016 motion thriller, O’Connor defined to Entertainment Weekly that the “entire level” of the long-awaited sequel “was exploring the brothers and that emotional line between them. That was at all times the intention, so she was by no means going to be within the second.”
Jon Bernthal and Ben Affleck in ‘The Accountant 2′
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In The Accountant 2, now in theaters, Affleck returns as an accountant on the autism spectrum who un-cooks books and launders cash for felony organizations all over the world. Following his emotional reunion with brother Braxton (Bernthal) within the earlier movie, the pair groups as much as clear up the assassination of Christian’s Treasury Division contact Raymond King (J.Ok. Simmons).
