Game of Thrones creators thought they were being pranked when informed of the final season coffee cup snafu

The Hollywood Reporter

"I couldn’t believe it," David Benioff says in James Hibberd's upcoming Game of Thrones book Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "When we got the email about it the next day, I honestly thought someone was pranking us, because there had been things before where people were like, 'Oh, look at that plane in the background!' and somebody had Photoshopped it in. I thought, 'There’s no way there’s a coffee cup in there.' Then when I saw it on the TV I was like, 'How did I not see that?'” Fellow co-creator D.B. Weiss adds: "I’d seen that shot one thousand times and we’re always looking at their faces or how the shot sat with the shots on either side of it. I felt like we were the participants in a psychology experiment, like where you don’t see the gorillas running around in the background because you’re counting the basketballs."