Kendra Meinert

USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin

The filmmakers behind “The Sixty Yard Line” have a favor to ask, and it’s a prickly, purple one.

They’re looking for Minnesota Vikings fans to be in their Green Bay Packers romantic comedy.

“Every good movie has bad guys, so we’re looking for Vikings fans,” said Ryan Churchill, co-writer and co-producer of the independent film. “We know that it’s a big ask. We know that it may not go over well. But we have to have a little bit of a bad guy scene.”

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The film crew, which shot for 15 days in Green Bay last fall, is returning Feb. 15-18 for the final scenes at the game-day party house near Lambeau Field that has been their primary shooting location. The movie, about how one Packers fan’s love for his team gets between him and his girl, is set during the year that former Packers quarterback Brett Favre signed with the Vikings.

Thus the need for a purple presence in a film heavy on green and gold.

Needed are four or five “true Vikings fans or Favre/Vikings fans” with the appropriate gear to portray a family or group of fans who traveled to Lambeau Field for an away game. They’ll be on set for one day of filming next week, and Churchill promises no Vikings fans will be harmed in the making of the movie.

A Beloit native, Churchill said he’s always impressed by how friendly Packers fans are to opposing teams when he tailgates at the location house at the corner of Stadium Drive and Oneida Street in Ashwaubenon on game days.

“There’s never a beef. It’s always like, ‘Hey, Vikings guys, come on in!’’’ he said. “So no, no bodily harm. We’re going to show them in a good light.”

Interested Vikings fans should email the60YardLineMovie@yahoo.com.

Next week’s two days of shooting, which require snow on the ground, also will include the cow scene. Last fall, the crew put a call out for a cow or calf able to fit through the front door of the house. They received an outpouring of responses.

“I’m going through and contacting and, quote/unquote, interviewing cows as we speak,” Churchill said on Friday from Los Angeles, where he works as an actor, writer and director along with his “Sixty Yard Line” co-producer and co-writer Nick Greco.

After the crew finished filming in Green Bay in November, they shot for three days at interior locations in L.A. with actors they didn’t have the budget to fly to Wisconsin. Those scenes will represent Green Bay in the film.

Lea Thompson, who was originally scheduled to be the mother of main character Zagger (played by Churchill), was forced to drop out because of a scheduling conflict. Actress Mindy Sterling, best known as Frau Farbissina in the “Austin Powers” movies, signed on to play the role for shooting in L.A.

Current Packers players John Kuhn and Mark Tauscher play themselves in the film, as do former players Ahman Green and Michael Montgomery. Retired World Cup soccer star and 1998 Bay Port High School graduate Jay DeMerit also has a cameo.

Newly announced star power includes longtime Packers fan and Ultimate Fighting Championship Hall of Fame inductee Chuck Liddell, Chelsea Crisp (of ABC’s “Fresh Off the Boat”) and stand-up comedian Jeff Dye (NBC’s upcoming “Better Late Than Never”). There are several more casting additions to come, Churchill said.

Next week’s shooting will wrap up principal photography for the project. An NFL Films-style narrator, featured throughout the movie, still needs to be hired and the narration recorded, Churchill said. But they’ve hired an editor and have “a first rough assembly” of all the scenes shot so far.

“That’s a huge, huge first step toward having a final cut. We’re very excited,” Churchill said. “It looks really good. It’s great. We’re very happy with it.”

The film is expected to be done sometime during the 2016 Packers season. Filmmakers are in the process of contacting Wisconsin theaters in hopes it will play across the state. Independent theater owners are asked to email the film directly to discuss distribution and showings.

Churchill said the crew is looking forward to a return to Green Bay, even if it means he might have to ask his parents in Beloit to send up his cold-weather gear for filming outdoors in February. Some of them spent more than a month in town last fall for what Churchill said felt like “adult film camp,” bunking at the house used for shooting, eating breakfast catered by The Stadium View Bar & Grille each morning in the garage next door and frequenting Cheesecake Heaven.

It was a routine they missed when they got back to California.

“It was kind of like we were in the Army. We had our schedule set for us every day — what we eat, when we eat. Then every night we’d go to ... Titletown (Brewing Co.), Stadium View, (Green Bay) Distillery and have our dinner and beer. Rinse. Repeat. Every day for a month and we kind of got used to that,” Churchill said. “All of us, especially us four that were there the longest, the producers, we had to take like two weeks of recovery, just kind of laid in bed with withdrawal. It was really funny.”

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Making contact

» Vikings fans interested in being extras and independent Wisconsin theater interested in showing the film: email the60YardLineMovie@yahoo.com

» Follow the film on social media: facebook.com/The60YardLineMovie, Twitter @The60YardLine, Instagram the60yardlinemovie. (Filmmakers are hoping to hit 10,000 followers on both Facebook and Twitter before the release of the movie.)