Not that anyone was really asking for a sorta-prequel to "Snow White And The Huntsman," but Universal has gone ahead and made one anyway with "The Huntsman: Winter's War." And credit to them for managing to land Jessica Chastain and Emily Blunt who both could be doing far better things than joining the returning Chris Hemsworth and Charlize Theron in this picture. Frankly, I'd love to see all four star in anything else but this.
Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, visual effects supervisor on the first film, is directing this one, which tells the story of what happened before Snow White came around, and it involves lots of fighting and jumping off things and mirrors. Here's the official synopsis:
Long before the evil Queen Ravenna (Theron) was thought vanquished by Snow White’s blade, she watched silently as her sister, Freya (Blunt), suffered a heartbreaking betrayal and fled their kingdom. With Freya’s ability to freeze any enemy, the young ice queen has spent decades...
