Christmas was saved.
But the old magic never forgot who betrayed it.
Red One: The Winter Pact takes the globe-trotting, myth-busting holiday action franchise into its darkest chapter yet. After the epic takedown of the rogue North Pole syndicate in Part 2, the world believes the holiday realm is safe again. But beneath the ice lies something ancient—something older than Santa himself—and it’s waking up.

Plot Summary: The Frost King’s Oath
Months after the collapse of the Naughty List Network, a strange frost begins spreading across cities with no source. Snow falls in summer. Time glitches in isolated zones. At the center of it all? A forbidden seal buried under the Arctic, broken during the last battle—and now leaking raw myth energy into the mortal world.
The leak awakens The Frost King, an exiled spirit from the original pantheon of holiday deities—erased from tradition and sealed away by Santa’s founders. Now, he wants his story restored… and he’s rewriting winter to make it happen.
To stop him, a rogue coalition of myth-benders must recover the Winter Pact, a lost scroll said to contain the ancient agreement between mankind and myth. But time is running out—and the Frost King has started rewriting who gets to be remembered.
New Lead Cast: Ghosts of the Season
Chris Pine stars as Rowan Vale, a former Department of Myth Ops agent turned historian, exiled after exposing corruption in the magical archives. Now haunted by forgotten legends only he remembers, Rowan is the key to unlocking the truth behind the Frost King.
Zendaya plays Tova, a tech-savvy “MythBreaker” who runs a black-market holiday artifact smuggling ring. Raised without any seasonal traditions, she sees magic as currency—until it starts rewriting her own childhood memories.
David Harbour appears as Hollis Thorne, a disgraced elf warrior who once served the Frost King and bears the rune mark of betrayal. Bitter, brutal, and burdened by guilt, he’s the only one who knows what the Frost King really wants.
Themes to Watch For
- Forgotten Magic
What’s erased from legend often comes back hungry. - Tradition vs. Truth
How do you protect a holiday when its origin was a lie? - Legacy Reclaimed
Memory isn’t history—it’s what we choose to keep.
Why It Hits Harder Than Ever
Red One: The Winter Pact transforms the festive fun into a sweeping mythological epic with stakes far beyond sleigh bells and snow. It’s a thrilling mashup of folklore and fantasy espionage—layered with emotional reckoning, identity, and a darker view of holiday history. As timelines fracture and symbols turn on their creators, this sequel dares to ask: What happens when the season of joy gets rewritten as vengeance?
This isn’t just a sequel.
It’s the holiday reckoning we never saw coming.