The Accountant 2 shall be heading to theaters as Amazon MGM Studios has given the belated sequel a 2025 release.

Per Deadline, The Accountant 2 has been slated for a theatrical release on April 25, 2025. Currently, the movie doesn’t have any competitors on that date, nevertheless it does arrive every week after the release of Antoine Fuqua’s Michael Jackson biopic and every week earlier than the release 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 pressured to contact Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck) to unravel 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 folks. Behind the quilt of a small-town CPA workplace, he works as a contract accountant for a number of the world’s most harmful felony organizations.

By the time The Accountant 2 hits theaters subsequent yr, it should have been practically a decade for the reason that first film’s release. The sequel has as soon as once more been directed by Gavin O’Connor from a script by Bill Dubuque. In addition to Affleck, Bernthal, and Addai-Robinson, the movie stars J.Ok. Simmons, Daniella Pineda, Allison Robertson, Robert Morgan, and Grant Harvey.

Before they acquired the inexperienced mild for the sequel, Affleck mentioned the mission may have develop into a TV collection as an alternative. “We’ve talked about it,” Affleck mentioned. “There appears to be a debate whether or not or to not do a TV collection model of it. The scriptwriter [Bill Dubuque] has develop into fairly profitable and busy, so he’s off doing his factor. And someone mentioned to me, ‘Well if we could find a script that we could retrofit and make into a sequel… But that’s type of difficult as a result of the character 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′.“