CONSERVATIVE MEDIA MOGUL Ben Shapiro’s latest foray into moviemaking has big-name actors like Harvey Keitel and Danny Trejo. But just a few weeks into production, the pro-ICE film tentatively titled Pawn Shop has hit a serious roadblock.

On Saturday, two days after I reported on Pawn Shop’s recreation of the ICE killing of Renée Good, town commissioners in Livingston, Montana voted to “immediately temporarily suspend” the Daily Wire’s filming permit.

“I am absolutely infuriated with the either malfeasance or lack of competence by the people that are operating a movie production event in our town,” commissioner and vice chair James Willich said in the Saturday meeting.

While the commission will meet again Monday evening to discuss the pulled permit, things aren’t looking good for ol’ Ben Shapiro. For one thing, no one from the film showed up at the Saturday hearing to defend the production.

For another, commissioners vowed at the weekend meeting not just to put an end to the production but to reform the town’s lax film-permitting rules, which appear to have allowed the Daily Wire’s film crew to essentially take over several streets with little oversight, in exchange for a mere $5,000 fee—a pittance compared to what Livingston city manager Grant Gager described as a $1.5 million budget for the movie.

Shapiro will no doubt cite this town in deep-red Montana as an example of wokeness run amok. But having watched four hours of the Saturday hearing, I can firmly say it paints a different picture. Because even though Pawn Shop’s controversial subject matter has attracted protesters, few people at the hearing brought up the film’s content as a reason to pull the permit.

Instead, commissioners, business owners, and members of the public all complained that Shapiro’s Hollywood dreams have brought mayhem to the town’s population of roughly 9,000 people, with a list of misdeeds that includes