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The Brass Bastards

Directed by: Beau "Chroma" Fipke This is based on a feature script. "Midnight on the Ropes" was written by Beau Fipke and performed by SUNO AI. In an alternate 1930s Midnight City a neon-drenched empire of Art Deco towers, zeppelins, and backroom bloodsport a war pilot Mickey “Mad Mick” Malone is a fallen hero grounded by debt and ghosts. He meets Frankie the leader of a gang of ruffians who propositions him to take down Sergei “The Butcher” Semyonov, the iron-fisted architect of the city’s underground,.Mick is forced into the The League a spectacle of steam-powered brutality and mechanical boxing. Mad Mick claws his way through rigged fights and mechanical monsters, he infiltrates Sergei’s empire from within, gathering the names, the money, and the secrets that keep the city on its knees. But the deeper he goes, the more he risks losing himself and Anastasia Volkov, the club’s luminous chanteuse trapped in Sergei’s gilded cage. Frank proposes a doppelganger to take Mick's place while they keep him busy and crack into the vault on his airship. But things don't go as planned as rogue force blows the zeppelin from the sky. Caught between corrupt power brokers, death matches and rooftop chases, and a unwelcomed by welcomed gang of anarchic mercenaries known as the Brass Bastards, Mick ignites a war that stretches across the city to the heart of corruption. As loyalties fracture and Midnight City teeters on collapse, a final reckoning unfolds aboard a colossal airship where fists, fire, and flight collide. In a world where faith is currency and violence is spectacle, Mad Mick must decide whether he’s fighting for redemption… or simply there to watch the empire burn.