Taglines: Newly Super. Almost Heroes.
Thunder Force Movie Storyline. In March 1983, Earth was subjected to cosmic rays that gave sociopaths superpowers, resulting in a rise of supervillains known as Miscreants. With no one able to stop the Miscreants, normal people are usually left living in fear of being attacked by them. After a Miscreant kills her geneticist parents on their way home from work, Emily Stanton becomes determined to find a way to stop Miscreants.
By 1985, Emily has sacrificed much of her social life in favor of researching possible methods of fighting back against Miscreants. While this results in her being bullied, Lydia Berman stands up for her and becomes her best and only friend. Lydia supports Emily’s dream of giving superpowers to normal people, though she tries to make sure that Emily doesn’t overwork herself. When Lydia convinces Emily to take a half-hour nap from studying in 1993, she accidentally causes Emily to oversleep and wake up late for an AP exam, straining their relationship and causing them to drift apart.
In 2024, Emily and Lydia have gone their separate ways, with Emily becoming a successful scientist and researcher for her own company and Lydia becoming a longshoreman. Lydia tries to reconnect with Emily when their high school reunion comes around and invites her to come. When she fails to show up on the night of the reunion, Lydia concludes that Emily is still uncomfortable attending parties by herself and goes to pick her up. Emily tells her that while she would have liked to go to the reunion, she had forgotten when the reunion was and had a project she had to work on that night, which Emily wants to show to Lydia. Unfortunately, Lydia accidentally injects herself with a serum Emily had been working on.
Having been injected with the serum, Lydia learns from Emily that the serum was designed to give a normal person superhuman strength and that she would have to undergo special training and treatment so the serum doesn’t kill her. Emily also joins Lydia in the treatment, although a less painful one since Emily took the serum in a pill form to take the other superpower concocted, invisibility. During the thirty-three day treatment and training, Lydia and Emily grow closer. Lydia discovers that in the years since their high school graduation, Emily had a daughter, Tracy, with one of the researchers, who could not handle the responsibility and left them.
Thunder Force is a 2021 American superhero comedy film written and directed by Ben Falcone, and starring Melissa McCarthy, Octavia Spencer, Bobby Cannavale, Pom Klementieff, Taylor Mosby, with Melissa Leo, and Jason Bateman. It is the fifth collaboration between McCarthy and her husband Falcone, and follows two childhood friends who invent a way to become superheroes in a world where criminals have developed superpowers.
Khunder Force was digitally released by Netflix on April 9, 2021. In its first 28 days of release, Thunder Force was watched by approximately 52 million viewers worldwide.
Thunder Force (2021)
Directed by: Ben Falcone
Starring: Melissa McCarthy, Vivian Falcone, Mia Kaplan, Octavia Spencer, Bria Danielle, Tai Leshaun, Jason Bateman, Bobby Cannavale, Melissa Leo, Taylor Mosby, Marcella Lowery
Screenplay by: Ben Falcone
Production Design by: Bill Brzeski
Cinematography by: Barry Peterson
Film Editing by: Tia Nolan
Costume Design by: Carol Ramsey
Set Decoration by: Danielle Berman
Art Direction by: Shawn D. Bronson, Andrew Max Cahn, Dawn Snyder
Music by: Fil Eisler
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some action/violence, language and mild suggestive material.
Distributed by: Netflix
Release Date: April 9, 2021
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