2026 has been a benchmark year for Jon Bernthal, so much so that it will likely be remembered as one of the most important years of his career. Bernthal has added over $5 billion to his career box office total thanks to his roles as Menelaus in The Odyssey and The Punisher in Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Before he teamed up with Tom Holland for the $2 million MCU blockbuster, he also starred as Frank Castle in his first MCU solo project, The Punisher: One Last Kill, which spent over a month at the top of streaming charts. Earlier in the year, Bernthal teamed up with Tessa Thompson for one of the most-watched Netflix shows of the year, His & Hers, but as a limited series, the show was never renewed for Season 2.
The last few years for Bernthal were somewhat quiet in the build-up to his colossal 2026, but last year, he did star in one of the most underrated action thrillers of the entire year. We’re talking, of course, about The Accountant 2, the hit sequel co-starring Ben Affleck. The Accountant 2 hit theaters at the end of April, but the film was only able to scrounge together $103 million at the box office — with an $80 million budget, it needed much closer to $175 million just to break even. However, The Accountant 2 has found redemption on streaming as one of Prime Video’s most-watched titles of both 2025 and 2026. The film has even been doing so well that it’s now been in the top 10 for over 200 days, which is an impressive streaming feat that few movies or shows have a claim to.
Collider Exclusive · Action Franchise Quiz What Action Series Would You Thrive In? Wick · Fast · Mission · Die Hard
Four franchises. Four completely different ideas of what a hero is: the assassin with a code, the family that never leaves anyone behind, the man who does his own stunts, and the guy who simply refuses to die. Only one of them runs on your particular brand of trouble. Eight questions will tell you which one you would survive.
🐕Wick
🏁Fast
🧨Mission
🎄Die Hard
01
How does a room know you’ve walked into it? Every action hero arrives differently. Some of them arrive before they arrive.
02
It turns physical. What does your fighting actually look like? Choreography is character. Yours says something about you.
03
Who is standing beside you when it starts? Some franchises are built on a team. Others are built on one person walking in alone.
04
It has gone badly wrong. What keeps you upright? Act two exists to find out what you’re actually made of.
05
There’s a vehicle. What are you driving, and how? No action franchise has ever survived without a car chase. This one is yours.
06
How do you feel about the people giving the orders? There is always an institution. There is rarely a good one.
07
Underneath all of it, what are you actually doing this for? The stunts are the reason people come. This is the reason they stay.
08
When the credits roll, what do people say about you? Every franchise is really an argument about what makes someone worth watching.
Casting Has Been Completed Your Franchise Is…
Four action series. One of them is built around exactly the way you
handle pressure, people, and a room that has just gone very quiet. Here is where you would survive
the trilogy, and probably headline it.
John Wick · Chapters 1–4 · 2014–2023
John Wick
You are precision with a grudge. You don’t posture, you don’t
escalate, and you don’t warn anybody twice. That is exactly why the people who know you are
so careful never to be the reason you start.
The Wick films run on discipline: an underworld with actual etiquette, a hero who
honours every rule of it, and a world that unravels the instant someone breaks one
against him.
You share that quality. You are extraordinarily reasonable right up to the line, and
then completely immovable past it.
Focus, commitment and sheer will. You’d be the one carrying grief through three sequels
and turning it into technique rather than noise.
People wouldn’t call you dangerous. They’d say your name quietly and let that do the
work.
The Fast and the Furious · Fast X · 2001–2023
Fast & Furious
You understand the thing the whole franchise is secretly about:
the cars are spectacular, but the crew is the point. You collect people, you keep them, and
you’d drive through a building for any one of them.
This series went from street racing to orbit without ever changing its actual subject,
because loyalty scales and plot doesn’t have to.
You have the same instinct. You build a family out of whoever turns up, and then you
defend it past the point of reason.
You’d thrive here because the franchise rewards exactly your strengths: warmth, nerve,
an absolute refusal to leave anyone behind, and a relaxed relationship with physics.
The mission can wait. The barbecue cannot.
Mission: Impossible · The Final Reckoning · 1996–2025
Mission: Impossible
You over-prepare and then take the dangerous part yourself
anyway. It looks like control, but it’s really responsibility. You have never worked out how
to ask somebody else to carry the risk.
This is the franchise of the plan that collapses on schedule: the team, the mask, the
rooftop, and the one person sprinting flat out because sprinting is all that’s left.
You share that refusal to accept an outcome. Told the odds, you treat them as an
administrative error.
You’d thrive here because these films reward competence and loyalty in equal measure.
The mission matters, but nobody on the team gets left on the wrong side of a door.
Some people delegate the cliff. You have never once been that person.
Die Hard · A Good Day to Die Hard · 1988–2013
Die Hard
You are not the most trained person in the building, the best
equipped, or the one anybody would have picked. You are simply the one still standing at the
end, which turns out to be the only qualification that matters.
Die Hard invented the modern action hero by making him mortal: outgunned, out-planned,
bleeding, and extremely funny about it.
You share that stubbornness. Adversity doesn’t make you noble, it makes you sarcastic,
and then it makes you unstoppable.
You’d thrive here because these films reward improvisation and nerve over preparation,
and you’ve never had the luxury of preparing anyway.
You didn’t want any of this. You just declined to be the person who let it happen.
Are They Making Another ‘Accountant’ Movie?
Around the same time last year that The Accountant 2 was released, director Gavin O’Connor confirmed that he was working on a third Accountant film. However, in the 18 months since it was released, there have been few updates about the threequel, though it’s still believed to be in development. Nearly 10 years passed between The Accountant and The Accountant 2, so it may just take some time for the third movie to make its way into theaters. Plot details and casting for The Accountant 3 are being kept under wraps, but both Bernthal and Affleck are expected to return.
Check out The Accountant 2 on Prime Video and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of The Accountant franchise.
