Margo Martindale Plots a Maple Syrup Heist in ‘The Sticky’ First Trailer
Amazon Prime Video has unveiled the first trailer for the dark comedy series “The Sticky.”
According to the official logline, the show “follows Ruth Landry (Margo Martindale), a tough, middle-aged maple syrup farmer who turns to crime when the bureaucratic authorities threaten to take away everything she loves. She teams up with the hot-tempered Bostonian mobster (Chris Diamantopoulos), and a mild-mannered French-Canadian security guard (Guillaume Cyr) to carry out a multi-million-dollar heist on Quebec’s maple syrup surplus.”
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As Variety exclusively reported, all six episodes of the half-hour show will debut on Dec. 6. It is based on the real Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist, but makes it clear in the trailer that “this is absolutely not the true story.”
Watch the full trailer below.
Other cast members include Gita Millier, Guy Nadon, Micka?l Gouin, Suzanne Clément, Mark O’Brien, Meegwun Fairbrother, and Vickie Papavs, with Jamie Lee Curtis appearing in a guest role.
“The Sticky” is the latest in a laundry list of collaborations between Blumhouse name sake Jason Blum and Prime Video. Other projects he executive produced for the streamer include films like “The Manor,” “Black Box” “Nocturne” and shows like “The Horror of Dolores Roach.”
“The Sticky” is produced by Blumhouse Television, Curtis’ Comet Pictures, Jonathan Levine’s Megamix and Sphere Media. Series creators Brian Donovan and Ed Herro serve as executive producers, showrunners. Other executive producers include Levine and Gillian Bohrer for Megamix; Curtis for Comet Pictures; Blum, Chris Dickie, Jeremy Gold and Chris McCumber for Blumhouse Television; and Michael Dowse. Lauren Grant also serves as executive producer with Josée Vallée and Bruno Dubé for Sphere Media, Inc. Russell Goldman associate produces for Comet Pictures.
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