10 Strangest Ways Movies Got Spoiled
9. The Musical Score's Track Listing - Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
This one's so blatantly thoughtless it's hard not to laugh today, even if back in 1999 it was no chuckling matter for millions of aggrieved Star Wars fans.
John Williams' incredible score for Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace was released over two weeks before the hugely anticipated sequel hit cinemas, and because spoiler culture apparently didn't exist at the turn of the millennium, the track titles went ahead and lifted the veil on one of the movie's biggest moments.
The 15th and 16th tracks on the album are respectively entitled "Qui-Gon's Noble End" and "The High Council Meeting and Qui-Gon's Funeral," making it hilariously clear that Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson) dies in the sci-fi epic's climax.
What could possibly be gained by titling these tracks this way, rather than naming them more ambiguously?
It's not like the album was leaked - it was commercially released 15 days before The Phantom Menace came out, and seemingly passed through many hands without anyone questioning this obvious own goal.