Napoleon: The Director's Cut gets a surprise release on Apple TV Plus, but I still refuse to watch it

Napoleon Bonaparte looks through a telescope next to his troops in his self-titled Ridley Scott-directed film.

Ridley Scott fans rejoice, because Apple just shadow dropped a director's cut of the iconic filmmaker's Napoleon movie on its streaming service.

Five months after Napoleon's theatrical version initially charged onto Apple TV Plus, the historical epic is getting a runtime upgrade with a boatload of never-before-seen footage. Indeed, Napoleon: The Director's Cut will be 48 minutes longer than the movie that arrived in cinemas last November, meaning this version's runtime clocks in at a mammoth three hours and 26 minutes.