How do you follow-up a hit movie, Snow White and the Huntsman, without the film’s titular character (played by Kristen Stewart) and also with losing the first film’s director?
How about you focus on the second titular character The Huntsman, and feature three other huge stars to join Chris Hemsworth in his triumphant return to the character he originated in 2012.
Universal has released the first four character posters for The Huntsman, a film that also brings back the best part of Snow White and the Huntsman, Charlize Theron as The Evil Queen Ravenna). Look for Jessica Chastain (The Martian) and Emily Blunt (Sicario) to play Warrior Sara and Ice Queen Freya, respectively.
The Huntsman also revealed its 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 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.
Cedric Nicolas-Troyan takes over the director’s chair from Rupert Sanders for the film that hits theaters April 22, 2016.