Summary

• The Accountant 2 is confirmed with major cast members returning, including Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal, for a focus on Braxton Wolff.
• The sequel will begin filming in 2024, with a possible release date of mid-2025, due to Ben Affleck's busy schedule.
• Director Gavin O'Connor plans for a trilogy, with the third movie focusing on the two brothers, making it a "buddy picture".

The Accountant 2 is the second chapter in director Gavin O’Connor’s proposed trilogy of movies about Ben Affleck’s genius money-laundering accountant on the autistic spectrum, Christian Wolff. The Accountant was released in 2016 to instant critical and commercial acclaim and was a certified box-office success for studio Warner Bros. Both Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal gave career-highlight performances as Christian and Braxton Wolff, and the ending left audiences with a demand for more.

The sequel to The Accountant has been in the cards for several years. Gavin O’Connor is returning to direct, with both Affleck and Bernthal back again to lead the cast. The Accountant 2 will feature Bernthal’s Brax much more heavily than the first movie, and while details are still relatively scarce, there have already been several significant pieces of info revealed by Gavin O’Connor. The release date for the sequel to The Accountant may still be a ways off, but there’s still plenty to discuss when it comes to The Accountant 2.

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The Accountant 2 Latest News

The Sequel Begins Filming

Moving along at a break-neck pace, the latest news confirms that The Accountant 2 has begun filming. In early March 2024, returning star J.K. Simmons revealed production was beginning soon, and just a few weeks later it was officially confirmed via a social media post. In a recent Instagram picture from Artists Equity, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's production company, it was revealed that shooting was underway on the long-awaited action sequel. No official timeline has been revealed, but things are finally moving forward.

The Accountant 2 Is Confirmed

A Sequel Is Happening

The Accountant 2 is confirmed, at least according to reports from 2021 and comments by director Gavin O’Connor. The project was uncertain for several years before this, as The Accountant sequel entered early development as far back as 2017. Warner Bros. is reportedly once more the studio behind the project, though this was never really in doubt — especially since the first movie grossed $155.2 million worldwide against a budget of $44 million for the studio (via Box Office Mojo).

2016's The Accountant is currently available to stream on Apple TV+

The Accountant 2 Production Status

The Sequel Begins Filming Later In 2024

Though the film's timeline is still a bit murky, it has been confirmed that The Accountant 2 will begin filming sometime later in 2024. Because of Ben Affleck's busy schedule with other projects, the movie isn't able to begin production straight away, and it won't start for a while after it was formally announced. However, co-star J.K. Simmons has revealed he will begin filming his portion in late March 2024. A release date is still forthcoming, but it won't be any sooner than mid-2025 at the earliest.

The Accountant 2 Cast

Who’s Joining Ben Affleck And Jon Bernthal?

The cast of The Accountant 2 is mostly unknown, but it’s been confirmed that Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal will be reprising their roles from The Accountant. In the 2016 movie, Affleck played Christian Wolff, the titular forensic accountant. Bernthal plays his brother, the hitman Braxton. Along with those two, it was announced in March 2024 that two other original stars would be returning. J.K. Simmons will reprise his role as Financial Crimes Enforcement Network Director Ray King, and Cynthia Addai-Robinson will also return as Treasury agent Marybeth Medina.

The known cast of The Accountant 2 includes:

The Accountant 2 Story

What’s Going To Happen To Christian And Braxton Wolff?

The premise of the story of The Accountant sequel is known thanks to comments made by Gavin O’Connor when the movie was initially confirmed. A key detail is that Braxton Wolff will be a major focus in the sequel. It was revealed that Brax was Christian’s long-lost brother in The Accountant, so the plot of The Accountant 2 will likely explore this in much more detail.

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Also confirmed by O’Connor is a third movie in the trilogy, meaning The Accountant 2 won’t be the end of Christian Wolff’s story. “I've always wanted to do three...So there'll be more screen time for Bernthal in the second one.” O’Connor explained on the 2021 Reel Blend podcast, “The third movie is going to be the two brothers, this odd couple. The third one is going be a buddy picture.”

What’s yet to be revealed is who the antagonist of The Accountant 2 will be, nor how the events of the ending of The Accountant will factor into the plot of the sequel. However, it’s likely that further conspiracies concerning Living Robotics and Harbor Neuroscience will almost definitely play a part.