“The Accountant 3” Already In The Works

Appearing at the recent SXSW festival, filmmaker Gavin O’Connor confirmed that the upcoming “The Accountant ” sequel isn’t just a follow-up to the cult 2016 hit, but the middle part of a trilogy.

Earlier in the month, O’Connor told Vanity Fair that he saw a potential trilogy with the franchise, has worked with the writer to map it out, and has already floated the idea with the film’s leading man Ben Affleck – who was also in attendance.

Affleck stars in the first “The Accountant” as Christian Wolff, an autistic forensic accountant working for criminal organizations and struggling with his own personal demons. Jon Bernthal co-starred as his estranged and lethal brother Brax.

Speaking about a third film’s possibility with Collider, O’Connor says he and screenwriter Bill Dubuque have been considering it since finishing work on the first film:

“There’s always been three. Since post-production, since I started editing the first one. 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.

Bill was a great partner in allowing me to start taking it in directions. Once we started working together, and we became really good friends – I love Bill. He’s just the greatest. We started talking about, and I said, ‘We should be doing three of these, so what’s the interstitial movie?’ Which is two, which is now, exactly what we talked about. And we have three. We’ve been now kicking the tires on what that story is. So, we’ll be doing that next.”

The team, however, not going to proceed with it unless the second film is a success not just box-office wide but with audiences as well, Affleck saying: “you kind of have to earn another movie.”

The sequel sees Treasury Agent Marybeth Medina (Cynthia Addai-Robinson) returning and bringing both Christian and Brax out of hiding after someone close to them is killed by unknown assassins.

“The Accountant 2” will be released in cinemas on April 25th.

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