Jamie Lee Curtis will return to the small screen in a new comedy series for Amazon Prime Video

The recent Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actress Jamie Lee Curtis will return to the small screen in a comedy series for Amazon Prime Video about a true story that surpasses any fiction: The theft of 3,000 tons of maple syrup.

‘The Sticky‘ will tell the story of the biggest heist in Canadian history, an operation valued at 18 million dollars that affected 70% of the world’s production of maple syrup. In the series, Margo Martindale She plays Ruth Landry, a years-experienced maple syrup farmer who is tired of being walked all over by the government. Fighting over her property, her business, and her comatose husband, Ruth seeks the help of Remy Bouchard (Guillaume Cyr), a corrupt security guard, and Mike Byrne (Chris Diamantopoulos), a mobster, to help her devise an “alternative way” to sell her product without being accountable to the state. The crime became known as “The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Robbery“.

The series is currently being shot in Montreal directed by the Canadians (everything stays at home) Michael Dowse and Joyce Wong. The project also serves as a new meeting between Curtis and the producer of the new ‘Halloween’ trilogy, Jason Blumwho will serve as executive producer of the series on the Blumhouse Television banner alongside Chris McCumber, Jeremy Gold and Chris Dickie.

Jamie Lee Curtis, of which we all remember her iconic role in the series ‘scream queens‘, was able to find a gap in his busy schedule to participate in ‘The Sticky’ while preparing the premieres of ‘The Haunted Mansion‘, the new film about the Disney attraction, and the video game adaptation ‘borderlands‘.