Anna Kendrick Is “100% In” for ‘The Accountant 3,’ Says Director Gavin O’Connor: “Christian Deserves His Love Story”

Anna Kendrick may have skipped out on The Accountant 2, but director Gavin O’Connor says she’s already texting about suiting up for a third and final chapter — and she’s all in.

Speaking with The New York Times alongside Ben Affleck and screenwriter Bill Dubuque, O’Connor confirmed that Kendrick — who played Dana Cummings, the soft-spoken accountant who bonded with Affleck’s Christian Wolff — is ready to return if the franchise gets the green light for a threequel.

“We’ve had some preliminary conversations,” O’Connor said, adding that he’s been trading texts with Kendrick. “She said she’s a hundred percent in if we want her.”

Affleck, sitting alongside him, laughed and chimed in: “We’re hoping she still likes us.” O’Connor quickly reassured him: “She does.”

While Kendrick’s absence is felt in the newly released sequel, O’Connor and Dubuque deliberately pivoted the second film to focus on brotherhood instead of romance. Inspired by classics like 48 Hours and Midnight Run, the sequel shifts the emotional center onto Christian’s relationship with his long-lost brother, played by Jon Bernthal.

“When Bill and I started talking about the second movie, it was very important to us that we didn’t want a love story,” O’Connor told Entertainment Weekly earlier this month. “We wanted a buddy movie — a story about two brothers finding each other.”

But that was always just step two of a bigger plan. The real emotional payoff — Christian Wolff’s search for love and human connection — is meant to come full circle in a third and final film.

“Then the third movie, which is what the plan has always been, is for Christian’s quest for love and connection to be consummated,” O’Connor explained. “I don’t know what that’s going to be yet, but that’s the intention.”

Affleck, for his part, is ready whenever the call comes. “We’re just waiting for another great script,” he said.

For fans of The Accountant universe, it sounds like the story isn’t quite balanced yet — but if O’Connor, Affleck, and Kendrick have anything to say about it, Christian Wolff will get the ending he deserves.