Tonight sees the release of The Huntsman: Winter’s War. It’s no secret that this film is a spin-off of Snow White and the Huntsman that features no Snow White. The die was cast before the first movie even came out to create a franchise not with Kristen Stewart’s Snow White, but with Chris Hemsworth’s Huntsman character. That this spin-off, which took a female-led franchise and made it into a male-led one, finally arrives today, with poor reviews and dicey box office prospects heading into the weekend, is not a little ironic. Being the star of a major action fantasy franchise couldn’t keep Stewart safe from getting the boot off of her franchise. That seems to be a current tren
