The Accountant 2 has but to launch in theaters, however director Gavin O’Connor already has his eyes set on a trilogy.
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Talking to Collider at SXSW, the place the movie had its premiere, O’Connor was requested a few third movie, and confirmed that one is within the works, as he and screenwriter Invoice Dubuque are mapping out a trilogy.
“There’s all the time been three,” stated O’Connor. “Since post-production, since I began enhancing the primary one. I didn’t know Invoice [Dubuque]. We met on the primary film. I obtained the script from Lynette Howell Taylor, after which from the script that I initially obtained, I began working with Invoice. I feel any filmmaker’s going to do it. You get a script, you reply to it. How does it have an effect on you personally? However then you definately preserve climbing inside it. It turns into your individual aesthetic and sensibility.”
This echoes feedback from O’Connor from earlier this month, when he told Vanity Fair that he envisioned the collection turning into a trilogy, and had already introduced up the thought to Ben Affleck.
Together with Affleck, The Accountant 2 will see Jon Bernthal, J. Ok. Simmons, and Cynthia Addai-Robinson reprise their respective roles as Brax, Ray King, and Marybeth Medina. Anna Kendrick, who performed Dana Cummings within the first film, is just not returning for the sequel.
“Christian Wolff is introduced out of hiding by Treasury Agent Marybeth Medina after somebody near them is killed by unknown assassins,” the synopsis for The Accoutant 2 reads. “To resolve the homicide, Wolff should recruit the assistance of his estranged however extremely deadly brother Brax.”
The Accountant 2 will probably be launched in United States theaters on April 25, 2025, by Amazon MGM Studios by way of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
(Supply: Collider)
