Nick Squire of Sabre Stone in Cranleigh, Surrey, has set up a new company. It is called Sabre Films and he hopes to be filming his first feature-length film early next year.

“It started, to be honest, at a drunken party in January,” Nick told NSS.

He is 53 and set up Sabre Stone in 2006 after he had been buying in granite worktops for an interior design company he was previously associated with.

At the party in January he decided he wanted to leave his children a film as a legacy. Many of us might have woken up in the morning thinking better of it, but Nick bought a laptop and some software called Final Draft and started writing.

He wrote a film script, currently called ‘The Hatching’, about the consequences of three children breaking into a zoo and stealing crocodile eggs that subsequently hatch. The film takes up the story 15 years later, when the crocodiles are large and living in Somerset, where Nick grew up.

One of the main characters in the story is running his family’s stonemasonry business. Another of the boys has become successful and turns up to buy a local mansion. It is stone and needs some repairs. He approaches his old pal. It is a black comedy.

Nick showed the script to Michael Anderson, an award winning director and cinematographer, who he had known in the past but had not seen for about 10 years.

“I asked him if he would mind having a look at it and give me some feedback. He came back in a couple of days and was bowled over with it.”

Michael is now a co-Director of Sabre Films with Nick Squire. They set up the company together in July to make this film and, they hope, others. Nick says he has already started writing a sequel

They hope the film will star Danny Dyer, known for his roles in The Football Factory and Doghouse. It will be a low budget production costing about £1million, although they have the backing of the government Enterprise Investment Scheme, which they say is helping to attract other investors.