Christopher Vourlias When the coronavirus pandemic arrived in Iceland last year, shutting down production on Netflix’s eight-part supernatural volcano drama “Katla,” veteran filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur was quick to rise to the challenge.With the support of the streaming giant, Kormákur came up with measures that would allow the production to get up and running again, introducing frequent testing and devising a color-coded system to control the flow of cast and crew on set.Since then, there’s been no looking back for Kormákur and his RVK Studios, which produced the series. “I never worked more than the year of the pandemic,” he tells Variety.
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