The Accountant 2
The Accountant 2will honkytonk into the moral force between Ben Affleck ’s Christian Wolff and his on - screen crony , Brax ( play by Jon Bernthal ) , reveals director Gavin O’Connor . Both character are back in activity in the flick ’s new preview , which also foreground returning virtuoso Cynthia Addai - Robinson as Marybeth Medina and J.K. Simmons as Ray King ( though the trailer reveals that character ’s fate early on on ) . The dying of King is the impetus for the write up , fueling Marybeth and Chris and drive them to solve a complicated logistical puzzler .
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The Accountant 2 , unloosen in 2025 , fancy Ben Affleck reprise his role as Christian Wolff . When an honest-to-goodness familiarity is remove , Wolff enlists his estranged brother , Brax , to unknot a deathly cabal . Alongside Marybeth Medina , they confront a unrelenting meshwork of killers decide to maintain their secret .
The long - awaited reunion ofBen Affleck and Jon Bernthaltook twelvemonth to make in part because of studio shake - ups at Warner Brothers , which were eventually overcome with the help of Affleck ’s production company Artists Equity . Even though the sequel read years to make , the trailer demo Affleck and Bernthal back in action seemingly without missing a beat . While their interplay is at the sum of the movie , The Accountant 2will also plunk deeply into the lives of certain original photographic film fictional character like Justine .
ScreenRantspoke withThe Accountant 2director Gavin O’Connor about his piece of work making the sequel to hiscurrently trendingThe Accountant . O’Connor detailed the long journey to get the motion-picture show made and explain his decision to kill off J.K. Simmons ’ Ray King . The music director also spoke more about the movie ’s key kinship , and how that helps set it aside from the original .
“It Was Like Making A One-Million-Dollar Independent Film”
O’Connor Reveals How Struggles Getting The Movie Made Ultimately Paid Off
The Accountant 2was very nearly a fatal accident of studio apartment upheaval , bring out O’Connor:“I think there was a bit of a revolving door and musical chairwoman going on at Warner Brothers . We made the sight to write the next movie in 2018 , and it was just , I do n’t know , whatever disfunction blend on in studios these days . ”O’Connor depart on to say , “ there were regime change , so we were facing those obstacle . ”
Once Affleck jump his company Artists Equity , it looked like the sequel may have another chance at biography , but more complications arose:“I do n’t know if there were complications with Warner Brothers and Artists Equity doing a co - studio kind of deal – I’m not really indisputable on the button what happened with all that – but we just could never get it die over there . Once Ben had his studio apartment , we were like , ‘ If you ’re not go to make it , do n’t highjack it and not allow us to go pursue this cinema we ’ve been trying to make now for eight years ’ . ”
Amazon helped lay aside the Clarence Day . “They graciously give us their thanksgiving and get us forget , and we blend in justly to Amazon , because they had listen what was go on . A lot of the people that used to work at Warner Brothers that Ben and I make love from the first picture are at Amazon now , so we had a mint of friends . ”Ultimately , though , the movie was pushed over the line by financing through Affleck ’s troupe . O’Connor said the following:“It was a minus pickup , so Ben ’s company , Artists Equity , financed the plastic film , which was a joy . aboveboard , it was like making a one - million - dollar main film . It was all about the originative act , and we just created this really fertile environment , and had fun and went and made the movie . ”
The Accountant 2 Has “Certain DNA” But Is Otherwise A Very Different Film
O’Connor Wanted To Explore Something Different In The Sequel
The Accountantwas an natural process / thriller with a puzzle - like plot that made it a standout among otherwise exchangeable fare . “It ’s funny with certain critic . They would have some issues with the complexness of the plot , but what I always tell the great unwashed is , ‘ If it ’s a unproblematic plot of ground , then anybody can figure it out , and no need to get Christian Wolff to come in’,”said O’Connor . Although the trick toThe Accountantfranchise is“making it rarify enough that only Chris can crock up it and the audience is just a little bit behind , but they ’re not so far behind that they kind of doze off and suffer interest,”O’Connor set out to make a very different motion-picture show this fourth dimension around .
WIth the sequel,“there ’s certain DNA that we honored,”O’Connor share , but,“I had no involvement in recapitulate what we did in the first movie . I wanted to build off the first one , but very much wanted to brush up the tank , do something very different , and create something very raw . ”As for the plot itself?“Bill and I very intentionally built the plot around human trafficking … because I want to glow a light on that study matter and explore that . ”
The Primary Relationship In The Accountant 2 Is Between Chris & Brax
The Movie Is About “The Emotional Line” Between The Pair
According to O’Connor , Chris and Brax serve as the beating sum ofThe Accountant 2.“I really wanted to go deeply with the Brother , make it a two - hander , and explore that kinship with Chris and Brax . ”But it was n’t always easy , reveals the director:“That created some complications because it was a bit of a tonal tightwalk . When you ’re handling such heavy subject issue as human trafficking and then trying to make a fun , entertaining film … it was challenge . It was challenging , and I honestly did n’t have sex if I pulled it off until I put it up in front of an hearing . But , fortuitously , it ’s all work and I ’m very pleased with it . ”
On the brothers , O’Connor also enunciate the following:“They’re both on a quest for love and human connexion , and they ’re both expect for that and need it from each other . That ’s really what the movie ’s about . It ’s this emotional occupation between these crony as they ’re examine to express themselves to each other and empathise each other , and that ’s really what we were explore inside of the puzzle film . ”
Expect Some Returning Characters From The Accountant, But Not All
And Don’t Expect To See Too Much Of J.K. Simmons, Either
When it comes to other render characters from the first film , audiences should n’t await to see Anna Kendrick ’s Dana:“Well , Dana ’s not in the movie . That was just the first one . We have a whole novel movie . ” The Accountant ’s Justine , however , will be featured alongside a cast of children that O’Connor could n’t have spoken more highly of : “ We have much more of Justine in the second film than we did in the first . Also , Harbor Neuroscience and all the kids at Harbor Neuroscience – we’ve create that world with these tike who exercise with Justine , and we cat all kids that are either neurodivergent [ or ] who are on the spectrum to act the roles . I ’ve mystify to assure you , gentleman , they ’re as good as every other worker in our movie . They were so just authentic and honest and no playacting . They were amazing , which , when you see the movie , I ’m certain you ’ll harmonize . The kids were great . ”
J.K. Simmons ’ Ray King also stool a return inThe Accountant 2 , but the death of the graphic symbol has already been unwrap in the prevue . “That was a unspeakable conversation with J.K.,”O’Connor said,“to have him know that he ’s travel to get offed in the movie . ”It ’s something of a complement , though , because it ’s the death of Ray King that drives the story ofThe Accountant 2forward:“The rationality Bill and I made that [ choice ] , and that was a very specific decision when we were mapping out what the 2d photographic film was going to be , [ was ] because it had to be personal for Chris . I wanted it to be personal for Chris , and for Marybeth . That relationship that Chris has with Ray King grounded the consultation in the first motion picture where they get to explore that . It just felt like it was a in effect key in the ignition of the story where we lose that person that Christian had a relationship with and that was a mentor to Marybeth , and let that be the undulation that we ride for the film . ”
O’Connor Praises Jon Bernthal’s Action Abilities, But Has Even More To Say About The Movie’s Emotionality
Keeping An Eye On Character Was Key “So It Doesn’t Feel Like Just Generic Action”
To round off out the conversation , O’Connor talk to Jon Bernthal ’s telling piece of work ethic after being asked how the doer get up the film ’s fight scenes . “ The affair about Jon is he ’s the hardest working thespian , ” O’Connor read , “ He ’s so committed to his craftiness and to the character and doing biographical body of work on the character . So it really starts with just build a case , and then from there you put him in any situation , [ and ] he can do it . ”
But the action is n’t of necessity the point:“Obviously , he ’s a very physical guy . He ’s a really good athlete . He has a fighting desktop . So doing all that action – he loves doing it . He ’s really scientific about the stage dancing and then make it feel like it ’s not choreograph , so there was a muckle of employment doing that . But most importantly , even deep down of the action , what was most important was continuing to fight role so it does n’t feel like just generic action or disposable fierceness . ”
To that end , the trailer forThe Accountant 2certainly highlights both the action and the emotionality of the film . “It needed to be a little canvass of the movie,”said O’Connor . There seems to be an appetence for such a movie as well , with the preview accumulating virtually 4.5 million views in the two years since it was post to the Amazon MGM Studios YouTube account . O’Connor ’s reaction to that many eye on the trailer?“My spunk just skip a beat there . ”
The Accountant 2hits theaters April 25 .
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