A Daily Wire Production in Montana Drew Protests, and Complaints About Its Stunts
The Daily Wire's new production has drawn local protesters in Livingston, Montana, where it is filming under the working title Pawn Shop. Deadline describes the film as pro-ICE and identifies it as a project of Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire and Dallas Sonnier's Bonfire Legend.
The objections Deadline reports included the production's alleged use of blank gunshots, pyrotechnics and a staged car wreck. A film crew's ordinary kit — fake gunfire, pyrotechnics, a wrecked car — reads differently when it arrives on your street.
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Part of the grievance is the plain machinery of filmmaking: blank gunshots, pyrotechnics, a staged wreck on a small town's streets.
That's the visible half. The half that made it a protest is the production's politics — which no location choice changes.