Ben Affleck’s 2016 action movie The Accountant has a surprisingly big cult following. Despite somewhat lackluster performance at the box office, fans of the movie (including Affleck himself) have been hoping for a sequel for years, and now it finally seems like it’s happening. Amazon MGM and Artists Equity, Affleck’s production company, have acquired the rights to the series from Warner Bros. and are moving forward with The Accountant 2, the companies announced Thursday.
While the announcement didn’t include many details about the sequel, we do know most of the original cast is coming back. Affleck will return in the title role, along with Jon Bernthal, J.K. Simmons, and Cynthia Addai-Robinson. The movie will once again be directed by Gavin O’Connor (Warrior) and written by Bill Dubuque (Ozark).
It’s great news, because The Accountant rules. It’s a blatantly ridiculous action movie that uses tax documents to kick-start 007-level espionage and violence. The movie stars Ben Affleck as the titular Accountant, a pencil pusher who’s turned his genius-level math skills into an empire, mostly by working with criminal organizations to make sure their books look good should any feds come knocking. Of course, all this goes wrong one day and everyone ends up hot on his heels. This is where the Accountant’s other skills come into play: He’s damn good with a gun.
If all male film roles can be broken down into either Matt Damon roles (nerdy, unassuming, bookish but alarmingly competent) or Ben Affleck roles (brutish, smart but would absolutely still bully a nerd, smoother than you’d expect) then the lead character of The Accountant is absolutely a Damon role. Which is exactly what makes casting Ben Affleck so much fun.
The Accountant’s name is Christian Wolff — yes, it’s a metaphor, obviously — and he’s great with numbers. As previously stated, he’s also really good with guns, his fists, and basically any conventional means of death and destruction we can imagine. In the exact
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