There’s another interesting twist to this story: in the fall of 2011, Natalia Taran, Anara Mukhanzharova, Igor Suppes, Pavel Latushkin, and Sergei Voronov began filming Cursed 2 because they’d enjoyed the first film so much that they didn’t want to part ways and end the project. They were joined by other actors (all of whom came through connections and on recommendation from Oleg Ananyev): Vitaly Ivlev, Ilya Panasenko, Anastasia Antsiferova, and others.
They ended up filming footage for a trailer for the film and two scenes for a future sequel, and then the project was shut down, due to the fact that the cast was starting to fall apart, but without Pavel Latushkin’s participation and not through the actors’ fault.
Pavel continued to try to persuade Natalia Taran to leave the cinema and instead focus on TV and film a full-length series.