Production Vehicles

Here is how this works in practice. Our team sources and sets up production car fleets tied to your crew size, gear and locations: camera, grip and lighting trucks, honey wagons, hair and makeup and star trailers, production office units, and the support cars that form a mobile base camp. Iceland's terrain shapes the fleet, so for Highland and off-road work we set up 4x4 super-jeeps set to the rough F-roads and river crossings that standard trucks cannot manage.

Here is the short of it. Car stock comes from local Icelandic fleet providers, with the skilled Reykjavik base as the hub. For large shoots we supplement pro trucks and trailers, and we manage logistics, advance parking and movement planning along the Ring Road. We handle parking permits, set up with Icelandic rules, and can give skilled local drivers who know the road conditions and the fact that driving is on the right. Cars are checked for cold-weather readiness and winter skill. We plan fuel and resupply over the long distances between locations, with driver planning and swaps across the shoot.

Here is the breakdown. Iceland's geography defines what a production fleet has to do. A large, sparsely populated subarctic island of around 103,000 square kilometres with roughly 390,000 people, it is circled by the Ring Road and entered through Keflavik Global Airport, with most locations a long drive from Reykjavik. The Highlands at Landmannalaugar and Thorsmoerk are reachable only in summer via unpaved F-roads needing 4x4 super-jeeps, while in winter the same routes are closed and conditions on open roads can change fast.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Distances between the rift valley of Thingvellir, the glacier lagoon at Jokulsarlon and the Myvatn region make base-camp logistics and fuel planning key. Productions including 'Game of Thrones', 'Interstellar' and 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' have moved crews across these landscapes, and with Film in the country reimbursing 25 percent of eligible costs, rising to 35 percent for larger qualifying shoots, an efficient, well-planned car fleet keeps a shoot moving and the budget under control.