It wasn't really all that long ago in the grand scheme of things when seeing Ben Affleck's name attached to a film wasn't exactly something to be celebrated, but damn, Affleck has certainly turned things around over these past few years to the point where I'm genuinely excited to see what he's up to next, either in front of or behind the camera. Aside from the upcoming SUICIDE SQUAD, our next look at Ben Affleck will arrive later this year with Gavin O'Connor's THE ACCOUNTANT. Warner Bros. have released a new trailer for the film and it is continuing to look quite promising.
"Imagine the secrets this guy has."
A synopsis for THE ACCOUNTANT:
Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck) is a math savant with more affinity for numbers than people. Behind the cover of a small-town CPA office, he works as a freelance accountant for some of the world’s most dangerous criminal organizations. With the Treasury Department’s Crime Enforcement Division, run by Ray King (J.K. Simmons), starting to close in, Christian takes on a legitimate client: a state-of-the-art robotics company where an accounting clerk (Anna Kendrick) has discovered a discrepancy involving millions of dollars. But as Christian uncooks the books and gets closer to the truth, it is the body count that starts to rise.
THE ACCOUNTANT is set to hit theaters on October 14, 2016.