Ben Affleck Crunches Numbers and Bodies in 'The Accountant' Trailer
Ben Affleck may still be smarting from the critical drubbing suffered by Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice—at least according to the internet’s favorite 2016 meme—but he’ll be donning the cowl once again this August when he makes a not-so-surprise appearance alongside Jared Leto’s The Joker in Warner Bros’ Suicide Squad. Shortly after that, however, he’ll be taking a brief break from branding bad guys with bat symbols to play a deadly, finger-tapping, badass desk jockey in fall thriller The Accountant (Oct. 14), which has just released its excellent first trailer (watch it above).
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In Warrior director Gavin O’Connor’s upcoming film, Affleck plays a man who, by the looks of things, isn’t so different from his Dark Knight—at least insofar as he’s a brilliant, methodical loner with a killer secret identity. Resembling a cross between A Beautiful Mind and any number of special-ops movies, it poses the question “Who is the Accountant?” but then proceeds to make clear that he’s a gifted genius with a lifelong knack for math and puzzles who apparently uses his incredible mental faculties to crunch numbers by day, and gets involved in some high-powered action (with a formidable personal arsenal) by night.
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How Anna Kendrick and J.K. Simmons—soon to be Commissioner Gordon to Affleck’s Caped Crusader in the Justice League movies—factor into this action remains murky at best, as The Accountant’s initial trailer deftly teases its premise without giving away much concrete info. Which, in the end, simply makes it that much more of an effective first look.
Ben Affleck flashback: Watch him talk about the research he did at the CIA for ‘Argo’:
