10 Confusing Movie End Credits FINALLY Explained
2. Sense And Sensibility - Stephen Fry Retrieved Emma Thompson's Missing Script File
When Emma Thompson originally wrote her cinematic adaptation of Jane Austen's period novel Sense and Sensibility, you can guarantee that she didn't expect a dodgy computer to play such a big part in the film being made...or potentially not being made as it turned out.
As it happened, Thompson was in the closing stages of finishing off her script - which she'd spent five years trying to perfect - when her computer suddenly crashed. She tried her damnedest but couldn't retrieve the file containing the screenplay, so Thompson enlisted a repairman to try and help her salvage the lost writing.
Unfortunately they couldn't help either, so Thompson turned to her old pal Stephen Fry (as you do) who just so happened to be a complete and utter computer whizz.
Fry was incredibly able to save the once lost file and Thompson went and bagged herself an Academy award for best adapted screenplay at that year's Oscars.
As a polite show of appreciation for Fry's heroic script saving efforts, the producers went out of their way to thank him in the closing credits of the feature.
Stephen Fry: I.T. technician...who knew?