The Accountant 2 will likely be heading to theaters as Amazon MGM Studios has given the belated sequel a 2025 launch.
Per Deadline, The Accountant 2 has been slated for a theatrical launch on April 25, 2025. Presently, the movie doesn’t have any competitors on that date, but it surely does arrive per week after the discharge of Antoine Fuqua’s Michael Jackson biopic and per week earlier than the discharge of Marvel’s Thunderbolts*.
The official synopsis reads: “When her former boss is killed by unknown assassins, Treasury Agent Marybeth Medina (Cynthia Addai-Robinson) is compelled to contact Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck) to resolve the homicide. With the assistance of his estranged however extremely deadly brother Brax (Jon Bernthal), Chris applies his sensible thoughts and less-than-legal strategies to piece collectively the unsolved puzzle. As they get nearer to the reality, the trio draw the eye of a number of the most ruthless killers alive—all intent on placing a cease to their search.“
The Accountant starred Ben Affleck as Christian Wolff, a math savant with extra affinity for numbers than individuals. Behind the quilt of a small-town CPA workplace, he works as a contract accountant for a number of the world’s most harmful legal organizations.
By the point The Accountant 2 hits theaters subsequent yr, it can have been almost a decade for the reason that first film’s launch. The sequel has as soon as once more been directed by Gavin O’Connor from a script by Invoice Dubuque. Along with Affleck, Bernthal, and Addai-Robinson, the movie stars J.Ok. Simmons, Daniella Pineda, Allison Robertson, Robert Morgan, and Grant Harvey.
Earlier than they acquired the inexperienced gentle for the sequel, Affleck stated the venture might have develop into a TV sequence as an alternative. “We’ve talked about it,” Affleck stated. “There appears to be a debate whether or not or to not do a TV sequence model of it. The scriptwriter [Bill Dubuque] has develop into fairly profitable and busy, so he’s off doing his factor. And any person stated to me, ‘Well if we could find a script that we could retrofit and make into a sequel… But that’s kind of difficult as a result of the persona of the character is so particular, that doesn’t actually work to only say, ‘Well, we used call this script Action Movie Shootout, and now we’re going to name it The Accountant 2′.“
