Two screen writers are looking for a multi-millionaire to bankroll their first film.

Martyn Chalk and Simon Porritt said they wanted a sugar daddy with Oxford connections to finance The Cowley Road Drinking Club.

The pair finished the final draft of their script on Monday after two years of coffee-fuelled evenings fine-tuning the comedy.

Mr Porritt, 37, from Chatham Road, South Oxford, said: "It is quite a relief. It has been hard work but very enjoyable.

"The script has changed a lot since the original idea. It is a snapshot of Oxford two or three years ago. There are lots of good gags and a little bit of excitement."

Mr Chalk, 34, from Reliance Way, Cowley, said the pair had based their original idea on a group of people they regularly saw in The Hobgoblin pub, in Cowley Road, on Sundays.

He said the film would follow Sunny, a mid-30s slacker who was coming to terms with life after his divorce.

It would utilise a range of locations in Cowley Road, he said, and added: "It is brilliant. It is going back to the British comedy as it should be. I like to think we are modernising the Ealing Comedy.

"Films like Notting Hill and Four Weddings and a Funeral are all about middle class people with fluffy hair and posh accents.

"This is about real people who have real lives. They see Oxford as where they live rather than a picture postcard."

The pair and Rob Hamilton-Day, a friend who they have roped in to organise the film's production, have now posted their script to a Bafta-winning producer in the hope he will get involved in the film.

Mr Hamilton-Day has begun to draw up a projected budget for the movie which will include the costs of shutting Oxford roads and hiring a City Sightseeing Oxford tour bus and Ford Cortina for "the world's slowest car chase".

The group have also drawn up plans to attract a couple of Green Lighters - stars whose name will ensure finance is easy to get once they have signed up to the film.

Mr Chalk said: "The perfect scenario for me would be a multi-millionaire from Oxford who wants their name on the film but does not want to be involved in the creative side."

Once funding and a producer are secured the three hope to shoot the film in six weeks next summer.