Although Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal reunite for some an action-packed bromance in The Accountant 2one familiar face is missing from the sequel.
Franchise director Gavin O’Connor recently teased that he plans to have Anna Kendrick reprise her role as accountant Dana Cummings for a future third installment, as Affleck said he’s “just waiting for another great script.”
O’Connor told The New York Times that he and screenwriter Bill Dubuque “have had some preliminary conversations. I am personally running from another puzzle movie, which we’ve done twice now. One thing weve talked about is the idea of bringing Anna Kendrick [who plays Christian’s love interest in the first movie] back. Maybe Christian can finally get the love that he deserves.”
“We’re hoping she still likes us,” said Affleck, to which O’Connor updated him, “Actually, Ben, she and I have been texting. She said she’s a hundred percent in if we want.”
After Kendrick’s Dana sparked romance with Affleck’s titular Christian Wolff in the original 2016 action thriller, O’Connor explained to Entertainment Weekly that the “whole point” of the long-awaited sequel “was exploring the brothers and that emotional line between them. That was always the intention, so she was never going to be in the second.”
Jon Bernthal and Ben Affleck in ‘The Accountant 2′
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In The Accountant 2now in theaters, Affleck returns as an accountant on the autism spectrum who un-cooks books and launders money for criminal organizations around the world. Following his emotional reunion with brother Braxton (Bernthal) in the previous film, the pair teams up to solve the assassination of Christian’s Treasury Department contact Raymond King (J.K. Simmons).
