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Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer star in the new Netflix film Thunder Force as two childhood best friends who reunite as an unlikely crime-fighting superhero duo. The film marks McCarthy’s fifth collaboration with husband Ben Falcone, who wrote and directed the film, and her first with longtime friend Spencer. Ahead of the superhero flick’s April 9 premiere, Falcone shared five secrets from behind the scenes. FORCE-FUL FRIENDS Spencer and McCarthy have been real-life friends for over 2...

Lightning doesnt strike. TWITTER Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer don superhero suits to fight evil mutants in a comedy from writer-director Ben Falcone. If Thunder Force will be remembered for anything, it might be this bizarro footnote: The movie marks the second time, after The Shape of Water, that a character played by Octavia Spencer learns her best friend has had life-changing sex with a fish-man. Which makes it sound a lot more interesting than it is. It helps, of course, that the ...