10 Strangest Ways Movies Got Spoiled
6. The Sony Pictures Hack - Spectre
Literally days before James Bond film Spectre was set to start shooting, a draft of the film's screenplay was leaked online as part of an extensive data hack at Sony Pictures.
And though this leaked script was an early draft which deviated significantly from the final one, a shooting schedule which was also leaked confirmed the persistent rumour that Christoph Waltz's villain Franz Oberhauser was actually 007's iconic nemesis Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
Given that this schedule was dated for early November, almost exactly a month before filming began, there wasn't any doubt that fans were looking at the final, locked version of the movie's story with regard to Blofeld, and so MGM's closely guarded secret was out in the open before a single frame of the film had even been shot.
As a result, for the entire year between this leak and Spectre's release, fans were simply left waiting for this thoroughly anti-climactic "shock" to play out.