Los Angeles-based Upgrade Productions, Iceland’s Act 4 and Croatia’s Drugi Plan have teamed up for a new eco-thriller called Volcano. The 8-episode series will be produced by Act 4, the newly announced production company led by prominent Icelandic creatives, including True Detective actor Ólafur Darri Ólafsson and Black Sands producer Hörður Rúnarsson, and Croatia’s Drugi Plan, led by Nebojsa Taraba and Miodrag Sila (HBO’s Success, Netflix’s The Paper), Variety reports.

Executive produced by Upgrade Productions, Volcano is based on an original idea by Taraba and Sila and written by Rúnarsson and Mateja Božičević (Prime Video’s Carnival Row). The mixed-language series (English, Icelandic, Croatian) will be shot in Iceland and Croatia, with production scheduled to start early next year.

After a crushing volcanic eruption devastates Iceland, a UN directive relocates the surviving residents to Croatia. Volcano follows the tensions that arise as these vastly different societies are forced to learn how to live together, survive cultural clashes and ultimately help each other.

“We’re thrilled to collaborate with Act 4 and Drugi Plan on ‘Volcano’ as we see this series not simply as a story about disaster, but an exploration of how people behave and treat each other under extraordinary circumstances. Hörður Rúnarsson and Mateja Božičević have crafted an incredibly compelling project that we’re excited to develop further together,” said Upgrade Productions’ head of series Caroline Kusser.