An early version of the screenplay for the upcoming James Bond film "Spectre" was among the trove of documents embezzled in the Nov. 24 cyber attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment, according to BBC reports.

According to Collider, the hackers have threatened to continue releasing documents, and the script may be part of a "Christmas gift" that the hackers, Guardians of Peace, threatened this past Saturday.

Eon Productions, the production company that backs the iconic film franchise, took immediate action. In a press statement posted on the film's official website, the production company slammed the theft of the screenplay and cautioned against the script's leak to the Internet.

"Eon Productions, the producers of the James Bond films, learned this morning that an early version of the screenplay for the new Bond film SPECTRE is amongst the material stolen and illegally made public by hackers who infiltrated the Sony Pictures Entertainment computer system," the statement read.

"Eon Productions is concerned that third parties who have received the stolen screenplay may seek to publish it or its contents," the producers said.

"Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and Danjaq LLC will take all necessary steps to protect their rights against the persons who stole the screenplay, and against anyone who makes infringing uses of it or attempts to take commercial advantage of confidential property it knows to be stolen," the producers wrote.

David Boies, an influential Sony Pictures Entertainment lawyer and one of the most high profile U.S. litigators, sent a cease and desist letter to news organizations Sunday, warning them against using information that hackers have leaked about the studio, The Hollywood Reporter notes. Boies notes that the conflict emerged as as a result of "an on-going campaign explicitly seeking to prevent SPE from distributing a motion picture."

"We are writing to ensure that you are aware that SPE does not consent to your possession, review copying, dissemination, publication, uploading, downloading or making any use of the stolen information, and to request your cooperation in destroying the stolen information," the letter reads.

Boies also elucidated that the hackers were "using the dissemination of both private and company information for the stated purpose of materially harming SPE unless SPE submits and withdraws the motion picture from distribution."

Collider notes that the hack is in response to Sony's decision to release the forthcoming Seth Rogen-Evan Goldberg buddy comedy "The Interview" starring James Franco, which Guardians of Peace has asked Sony Pictures Entertainment to pull. The hacking collective are said to believe will cause a war with North Korea because the nation is lampooned in the film. 

Filming for "Spectre" began earlier at the start of December, with the film scheduled for a theatrical release in November 2015.