Ron Livingston & Jake Ryan Wrap On Steve Collins Comedy ‘Fonk’

EXCLUSIVE: Ron Livingston (Office Space), Jake Ryan (Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City), Beth Grant (Donnie Darko) and Christina Kirk (Girls) have wrapped on the Ohio shoot for Fonk, an indie comedy from filmmaker Steve Collins.

Fonk follows a beleaguered English professor who hijacks an impressionable student’s thesis film and begins a comically troubling partnership to reclaim his dignity and shoot his “unfilmable” debut novel.

Livingston plays Professor Fonk, with Ryan as his protégé, Grant as his mother and Kirk as his ex-wife.

The larger ensemble includes Todd Berger, Mimi Fletcher, T.J. Lee, Alessia Carrossellia, Frank Jicha, Emily Kuntz, Cole Aansen, Celina Lamon, Liam Stilson and Mabel Thomas.

Fonk is an Eyeheart Cinema and Ten Acre Films production. Collins, whose previous films include Gretchen and I’ve Got Issues, wrote and directed. Jonathan Duffy and Kelly Williams, whose credits include Sorry to Bother You and What Happens Later, produced. Livingston and Derk Cullinan serve as executive producers.

Livingston is repped by Thruline Entertainment, UTA and attorney Adam Kaller; Ryan by The Gersh Agency and Thruline Entertainment; Grant by Buchwald; and Kirk by Circle Management + Production and Artists & Representatives.