The Sticky is a dark comedy on Prime Video that is executive produced by Hollywood star Jamie Lee Curtis, who also has a guest role in in series. It follows the story of a real-life heist in 2012 that saw more than 18m Canadian dollars’ worth of maple syrup stolen from Quebec’s national reserves.
The Sticky features Dexter star Margo Martindale as a tough farmer who resorts to drastic action when the authorities threaten her livelihood. "I first thought this couldn't be a real thing," Margo has admitted. "It was wild to learn about it. I love knowing about this now. I learned way, way, way, way too much about maple syrup"
Here’s everything we know about the Prime Video series The Sticky...
The Sticky release date
The Sticky is a six-part series that will premiere on Prime Video on Friday December 6 2024.
Is there a trailer?
Yes there's a great trailer for The Sticky showing you all the maple syrup heist action. Take a look below.
The Sticky plot
The Sticky follows Ruth Landry (Margo Martindale), a Canadian maple syrup farmer. She comes up against the authorities, who threaten to take away everything she loves, so she teams up with a bad-tempered mobster Mike Byrne (Chris Diamantopoulos), and a mild-mannered French-Canadian security guard Remy Bouchard (Guillaume Cyr) to carry out a multi-million dollar-heist on Quebec’s maple syrup surplus. And in a country where maple syrup is worth more than oil, the crime was sure to hit the headlines.
The Sticky cast — Margo Martindale on playing Ruth Landry
In The Sticky, Margo Martindale plays desperate farmer Ruth. She says: "Ruth is the smart one, the brains of the operation, and I guess Remy is the heart and Mike is the muscle. But it’s sort of a Three Stooges situation. Ruth is on her final legs of trying to survive, and that makes the stakes higher. This show was different from any that I’d read, and I first thought this couldn’t be a real thing. I liked that it was loosely inspired by a true story. I knew nothing about maple syrup farming, of course, and it was wild to learn about it. In fact, I learned way, way too much about maple syrup!’
* Margo Martindale previously played Ruth Eastman in The Good Wife and Carol Miller in The Millers. Margo has also starred in the films Million Dollar Baby, Lorenzo’s Oil, Instant Family, Cocaine Bear and Beautiful Creatures as well as the series The Watcher, Your Honor, Sneaky Pete, The Americans and Dexter. She is also lending her voice to the upcoming movie of Roald Dahl’s The Twits.
Who else is starring in The Sticky?
Other cast for The Sticky are Chris Diamantopoulos as mobster Mike Byrne while Guillaume Cyr is security guard Remy Bouchard. Jamie Lee Curtis will guest star as Bo Shea, an associate of Mike’s, while Gita Miller, Gay Nadon, Mark O’Brien and Suzanne Clement also feature.
Behind the scenes and more on The Sticky
The Sticky is produced by Blumhouse Television, Jamie Lee Curtis’ Comet Pictures, Jonathan Levine’s Megamix and Sphere Media. Creators, executive producers, showrunners and writers are Brian Donovan and Ed Herro; executive producers Jonathan Levine and Gillian Bohrer for Megamix; Jamie Lee Curtis for Comet Pictures; Jason Blum, Chris McCumber, Jeremy Gold, and Chris Dickie for Blumhouse Television; and Michael Dowse. Lauren Grant serves as co-executive producer. Associate producers include Josée Vallée and Bruno Dubé for Sphere Media, Inc and Russell Goldman for Comet Pictures.
"There’s nothing more Canadian than maple syrup, and there’s nothing more entertaining to watch than three completely unqualified crooks attempting to steal millions of dollars of the stuff,’ says co-creator Ed Herro. ‘They’re soon in over their heads, in a desperate attempt to get their sticky fingers on what they feel they deserve.’
The series – which also features a guest appearance from Jamie Lee Curtis as Bo Shea, an associate of Mike’s – was filmed in and around Montreal last year, and Martindale relished working on the Fargo-style caper.
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