The Huntsman: Winter's War is a 2016 American fantasy action-adventure romance film. Billed as both a prequel and sequel to Snow White & the Huntsman (2012), it marks the directorial debut of Cedric Nicolas-Troyan. It takes place before and after the events of the first film. The screenplay was written by Craig Mazin and Evan Spiliotopoulos and is based on characters created by Evan Daugherty. Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron, Nick Frost and Sam Claflin reprised their roles from the first film, with Emily Blunt, Jessica Chastain and Rob Brydon joining.

Plot

After Queen Ravenna's Magic Mirror reveals that her sister, Princess Freya, is pregnant by her lover Andrew, tragedy strikes when Andrew kills their newborn daughter. In grief and rage, Freya's latent cryokinetic powers emerge, and she kills Andrew before fleeing to the northern mountains. There, she becomes the Snow Queen, ruling with fear and raising kidnapped children as an army of Huntsmen, forbidding them from ever falling in love.