HBO Max viewers got more than they bargained for when Zack Snyder’s upcoming four-hour director’s cut of Justice League was leaked on Monday.
That’s right, according to Deadline as much as an hour of the highly anticipated film was accidentally streamed to subscribers who were attempting to watch Tom & Jerry.
It’s safe to say the temporary leak was quite the stuff up, given that the film is not set to premiere on HBO Max until Thursday, March 18th.
In a statement, a representative for HBO Max revealed that the error was “addressed within minutes.”
The director’s cut will serve as a companion to the original 2017 Justice League film, which Snyder had to exit during postproduction as the result of a family tragedy. Instead, Buffy the Vampire Slayer‘s Joss Whedon took over the direction of the film.
In a recent interview with ComicBook Debate, Snyder revealed that the new cut will feature scenes that “would have never seen the light of day” otherwise.
“The truth is I was in a struggle with the studio, you know and famously we had a lot of stuff we had to do, and make it funny, and all that stuff,” he said.
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“I just kind of, in a slightly subversive way, just kept also doing my thing at the same time so I would have, what I believed would be closer to what I wanted to do without any influence. I always try to shoot that way anyway. I always try to shoot what I think is right. Putting the movie back together was like an archaeologist, pulling all the pieces, what I had, what I had shot, and what would never have seen the light of day even though I had shot it.”
Check out the trailer for the temporarily leaked director’s cut of Justice League:
