7 # The Writing Team of the TV Series Another Reality

Writing Team

The main idea for the series came from Pavel Latushkin, since he had to do everything himself, and he was helped to come up with ideas and write dialogue by Yana Chapaeva, Maria Kharchenko, Anara Nurbaeva, Natalia Taran, Alexandra Afanasyeva, Sofia Mogil, Sergey Bubnov, Sergey Khlyntsev, Anton Shevchenko, and Alexander Gudkov.

In its early days, when the series was still a film in 2010 and bore the ugly title of “Hell,” it was clear it looked more like a fan-made Hellraiser. So, thanks to Maria Kharchenko joining the team, she and the other members spent all night working on the idea, writing the script, working on the dialogue, and literally the next day rushing to Verkhniy Karbush to film this hot story.

Later, work began on another film (Cursed 2011), with Natalia Taran and Anara Nurbayeva writing the script. In fact, Cursed 2011 is considered a project of the golden team of Pavel Latushkin, Igor Suppes, Natalia Taran, and Anara Nurbayeva (Mukhanzharova). At that point, the team was a well-oiled unit (of course, there were arguments, disagreements, and squabbles), but everyone found common ground and were truly creative. Then Pavel began to think that he didn’t want to part with such a team quickly and wanted to make long-term projects with them.

And then, in 2014, Yana Chapaeva became the permanent script assistant.

But Pavel still had to change the script and plot almost on the fly, all because the project was amateur, many worked without any salary, so there were unpleasant moments (actors didn’t show up), people left, refused, and so on…. Therefore, if you compare the plot as planned and watch what was finally filmed, you can immediately see the difference: the series deviates from the original idea by 80%.

The spirit of the series “Another Reality” was fueled by such films as “Hellraiser” and series as “Supernatural,” “Salem,” “The 100,” “Boulevard Horror,” “Lucifer,” “Constantine,” and “American Horror Story.”

Therefore, the main idea of the series is another reality, when something secret and unidentified constantly pursues the heroes and does not let them go until the very end… Therefore, in no case – no matter what the script, no matter the plot, but in the hero’s gaze, in his words, actions and thoughts – the same other reality must be present, and the viewer must feel it.