Jamie Lee Curtis And Blumhouse Team Up For Series Based On Canadian Maple Syrup Heist

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Amazon Prime Video has ordered a limited series from Blumhouse Productions titled The Sticky.The limited series is based on the true story of what's known as «The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Hest,» when bandits made off with over $18 million CAD worth of Quebec Maple Syrup.

The Amazon Prime series was created by Brian Donovan and Ed Herro, who will also serve as executive producers/ showrunners alongside Canadian showrunner and executive producer Kathryn Borel (Anne with an E). Jonathan Levine (Nine Perfect Strangers) will direct and executive produce. The Sticky is also produced by Blumhouse Television, along with Jonathan Levine's Megamix, Jamie Lee Curtis' Comet Pictures and Canadian Producers Sphere Media.

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The Sticky was announced alongside a slate of Canadian originals at the Prime Video Presents Canada Showcase Event in Toronto. "The Sticky is a half-hour series revolving around Ruth Clarke, a tough, supremely competent middle-aged Canadian maple syrup farmer who's had it with being hemmed in by the polite, bureaucratic conventions native to her country's identity — especially now that that very bureaucracy is threatening to take away everything she loves: Her farm, her comatose husband, and her right to freedom," reads Amazon Prime's official synopsis. «With the help of Remy Bouchard, a pint-sized local blockhead and Mike Byrne, a low-level mobster, Ruth changes her fate—and transforms the future of her community with the theft of millions of dollars' worth of maple syrup. „

“Comet Pictures is proud to be producing The Sticky with Blumhouse, Prime Video, and our partners,» said producers Curtis and Russell Goldman. «When we read Ed