Midnight Run (film)

The Outlaw’s Saga Presents… - Midnight Run, or simply known as Midnight Run, is an upcoming 2024 American YouTube film directed and created by MinneEagle YouTube Films. It stars MinneEagle as the voice of the main character, amongst the previously reinstated actors of the video game, Grand Theft Auto V & Grand Theft Auto Online.
== Plot ==
In June of 2024, Joel Wallace, a notorious criminal in Los Santos, San Andreas, is a cab driver by day for legitimate purposes, but a dangerous criminal and getaway driver at night, seeking more calmer jobs compared to what he did in the past.
One night on the Grand Ocean Highway, Joel is supposed to be a getaway driver for a couple of new bank robbers, taking on the Fleeca Bank, ironically the first bank Joel ever hit himself. However, things go wrong when explosive charges accidentally detonate and destroy the interior of the building, presumably killing everyone inside. With no other choice, Joel escapes the police by himself, then drives back into Los Santos.
The following day, Joel applies for his beloved 1960’s Eudora to be a suitable cab vehicle and takes it out to drive passengers across the city.
The next night, Joel is hired to recover a small package of cocaine from the Ballas north of the city. Joel arrives and fights the Ballas, giving chase to the boat that is trying to escape with the cocaine on a jetski. After a dangerous fight on the water, Joel is able to recover the cocaine and rides back to shore. He then steals a Blazer and delivers the cocaine to another part of the shore.
Joel stops inside a convenience store, but deciding he could use extra cash, on top of the clerk being disrespectful, Joel attempts to rob the store and tries making off with the cash on his stolen Blazer, but he is intercepted fast by the Paleto Bay Police, and after being knocked off during his escape, he is promptly arrested and spends time in jail. He is bailed out the next morning by his assistant, girlfriend and soon-to-be mother of his second child, Elena Miller, who gives him a lecture via the phone as he hitches a cab ride home.
Joel resumes his cab job, but receives another job from Simeon, requesting a vehicle repossession of a pink Zion. Joel successfully does the job, but learns after that the car belonged to the mistress of a powerful Korean mob boss. Ad a result, Joel is hunted across Los Santos by his crew, who threaten to target Elena unless he is killed. As a result, Joel pays for her ticket to fly away to Vice City and initially flees to Robada to reflect on his past.
While in Robada, Joel reminisces on a tragic event that took place at a certain rest stop he had stopped at over twelve years ago. It is then revealed that Joel had a son named Diego with an unnamed deceased woman and was on his way to the American Southwest with his toddler son after robbing a casino in Las Venturas that was supposedly run by an Italian mob. As a result, a hit squad planted an explosive on Joel’s car and blew it to pieces while he was taking a restroom break, with Diego still in the car.
Joel painfully relives the memory and remembers the faces of the hit squad, which were not of Italian men, but of Asian. Joel suddenly goes through several recollections of his casing of the casino he robbed, with there being a heavy presence of Korean men in suits, a certain Korean man wearing a suit who was protected, as well as a lighter presence of Italian mobsters. Joel then pieces together the fact that he recognizes the man who is hunting him as the head of the casino and gains a burning desire to hunt him and his allies down until there was nothing left.
Joel drives back to Los Santos and assassinates each member of the man’s crew in numerous ways, such as car burnings, sniping, and explosions. As a result, Joel is called out to meet the head of the Korean mob, Min Han, in a far away place where nobody would notice in Los Santos. Joel arranges for them to meet in Tokyo, Japan as he sees it fitting for the head to die in Asia, promising to send an address of their meeting place.
In Shibuya, Tokyo, Joel arranges for Han to meet him in a parking lot, but he is aware that he would rather send some muscle to kill him and sets up ambush spots within the parking lot to hold his ground. As expected, Min sends in Korean muscle to kill Joel in an all-out attack, but thanks to his gun skills and quick wit, he is able to repel the enemy reinforcements and survive. As a result, Joel flees Tokyo and returns to America, sending a chilling message to Min that he is on the way back and that he will kill him.
When Joel arrives in America, he finds that Min has arranged a cab for him, to which it takes him to a meeting point: an old warehouse in La Mesa. Joel is called into the warehouse and is informed by Han that waves of his men are coming, albeit without guns and instead with melee weapons and if he can survive them, he will show his face and the two can end things right then and there.
As expected, waves of Korean gangsters arrive to finally end Joel’s life. Joel masterfully ends up fighting and killing every last Korean gangster in the area while staying well defended in the warehouse. As promised, Min finally arrives, and the two engage in a hand-to-hand combat. Min ends up stabbing Joel in the abdomen twice, leading to Joel in turn, grabbing a nearby hammer and smashing Min in the head repeatedly, finally ending the life of the man who murdered his son long ago.
Joel calls his mechanic to get his beloved Eudora delivered, which he does so, and sits in his car, bloodied, battered, and wounded from his stab wounds. After sitting silently with his head on the wheel, he finally starts the car and drives off.
He calls Elena to tell her that he loves her and requests for her to not tell their future daughter about him. After saying his goodbye, Joel, although still mortally wounded, speeds through Vinewood Hills and drives away into the night, his future and fate uncertain.
== Cast ==
* MinneEagle as Joel Wallace, a hardened criminal, street racer, and getaway driver who works during most nights and is trying to support the future of his unborn child, and overcome the grief of his late son.
* Elena Melener as Elena Miller, the assistant of Joel Wallace and his lover. She is three weeks pregnant with his second child, prompting Joel to do what is necessary to keep her and their child supported without any further intervention.
== Production ==
== Release ==
== Planned Sequel ==
A sequel is planned that would end up taking place almost immediately after the ending of the film, with the setting being shifted to Vice City, as a continuation to Joel’s personal story. However, this requires the release of Grand Theft Auto VI, and whether or not it includes an online mode is not known.
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