Amazon has handed out a series order for the Canadian original comedy series “The Sticky” with Jamie Lee Curtis on board to executive produce for the Amazon Prime service.
The English language half-hour series is inspired by the true story of “The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist”. The story begins with Ruth Clarke, a disgruntled but skilled middle-aged Canadian maple syrup farmer who’s had it with the polite bureaucracy threatening to take away everything from her including her farm and currently comatose husband.
She teams with pint-sized local blockhead Remy Bouchard and aging low-level mobster Mike Byrne on a plan to steal $18 million dollars of Quebec’s national maple syrup – over 70% of the global supply and the largest heist in the country’s history.
Brian Donovan and Ed Herro wrote the pilot script and will co-showrun with Kathryn Borel. All three executive produce alongside Curtis, Jonathan Levine, Gillian Bohrer, Josee Vallee, Bruno Dube, Jason Blum, Chris McCumber and Jeremy Gold.
Levine will direct the series which will begin filming in Montreal this Fall.
Source: Variety
