'Snow White and the Huntsman' Sequel Gets a Pretty, Confusing First Trailer

With its stylized battles and elaborate costumes, the first trailer for The Huntsman Winter’s War is awfully nice to look at. But anyone looking for plot details might feel left out in the cold.

The sequel to the 2012 hit Snow White and the Huntsman (which made nearly $400 million worldwide), the new film returns the titular Huntsman (Chris Hemsworth) and Ravenna, the Evil Queen (Charlize Theron). Snow White is noticeably absent this time around, likely thanks to Kristen Stewart’s affair with director Rupert Sanders during the first film’s production. Instead, Jessica Chastain, who plays a bad-ass named Sara, is playing the female warrior role in Cedric Nicolas-Troyan’s directorial debut.

Also new for this go-round: Emily Blunt, who plays Freya, the Evil Queen’s heartbroken sister, who has the power of freezing things.

While the action-packed trailer is vague, Universal Pictures has released a synopsis, which lays out the twisted new adventure that hits the big screens on April 22:

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 in a remote wintry palace raising a legion of deadly huntsmen—including Eric (Hemsworth) and warrior Sara (Chastain)—only to find that her prized two defied her one demand: Forever harden your hearts to love.

When Freya learns of her sister’s demise, she summons her remaining soldiers to bring the Magic Mirror home to the only sorceress left who can harness its power. But once she discovers Ravenna can be resurrected from its golden depths, the wicked sisters threaten this enchanted land with twice the darkest force it’s ever seen. Now, their amassing army shall prove undefeatable…unless the banished huntsmen who broke their queen’s cardinal rule can fight their way back to one another.

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