The Accountant 2: Ben Affleck & 3 More Original Cast Members Confirmed To Return

The Accountant 2 will officially be featuring the return of several original cast members. The upcoming movie is a sequel to the 2016 action-thriller The Accountant, which starred Ben Affleck as Christian Wolff, an accountant with autism with connections to many criminal organizations who found himself in the middle of a dangerous conspiracy after taking on a new client. The movie was a box office success, earning $155.3 million worldwide against a budget of $44 million, though a sequel wasn't officially greenlit until 2021.

Per Prime Video, the upcoming The Accountant 2 is set to bring back four original cast members, including Affleck. Jon Bernthal will also be returning as Wolff's brother Brax, making good on the previous announcement that the screenplay would give his character a larger role than the original movie and deepening the brothers' complicated relationship. Also returning are J.K. Simmons as Financial Crimes Enforcement Network Director Ray King and Cynthia Addai-Robinson as Treasury agent Marybeth Medina.

These Accountant 2 Returns Are A Huge Casting Coup

The fact that The Accountant 2 has been able to bring back so many members of the original cast of the 2016 action movie is a tremendous accomplishment. In the eight years since its release, the movie's stars have taken on many major roles, especially in blockbuster franchises, that could have severely complicated their schedules. This includes Affleck himself, who made his debut as Batman in the DC Extended Universe the same year, a role that he would reprise in three additional movies.

Simmons, who played Commissioner Gordon opposite Affleck's Batman, has also had a robust career since 2016, with roles including playing J. Jonah Jameson in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Ivo Shandor in Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Their other co-stars have also held major franchise roles, with Bernthal starring in Marvel's The Punisher and Addai-Robinson playing Queen Regent Míriel in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. While not all of these roles are still ongoing, they have helped to make all four cast members hot commodities in the meantime.

However, not every original Accountant cast member is currently set to return in The Accountant 2. It remains to be seen if Anna Kendrick, Jean Smart, or John Lithgow will also return to reprise their roles in some capacity. Even if they cannot return, the fact that so much of the original cast has been assembled means that the sequel has the chance to continue the story of the original in an organic way in spite of the fact that it comes so many years later.