WORKING TITLE

:''This article is about the term 'working title'. For the film production company, see Working Title Films. For the band, see The Working Title''.
A 'working title' is the temporary name of a product or project used during its development. Although a working title may be kept as the final title, the assumption is that a working title will be changed before the actual release of the project. Working titles also allow the developing team to discuss the project in public places without letting people know exactly what it is.
Working titles are often used for films, video games, music album and software development. For example, the working title of the video game ''Shenmue'' was ''Project Berkeley''.

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Examples

Working titles that stuck

Examples

★ ''Adventures of the Starkiller (Episode One), The Star Wars'', ''The Adventures of Luke Starkiller (Episode One) The Star Wars'' and ''The Adventures of Luke Starkiller, As Taken from 'The Journal of the Whills' (Saga 1) Star Wars''. All were working titles for ''.

★ ''Anhedonia'', ''It Had to Be Jew'', and ''A Roller-Coaster Named Desire'' were all working titles for ''Annie Hall''.

★ ''Star Wars: The Beginning'' was the working title for ''.

★ ''Blue Harvest'' was the fake working title for ''. It was part of a larger ruse to disguise the nature of the film under the cover of being a horror film. ''Revenge of the Jedi'' was originally considered an official subtitle for the film, but dismissed because George Lucas did not consider revenge to be a way of the Jedi.

★ ''The Intimidation Game'', the fake working title of ''Batman Begins''.

★ ''Longhorn''. The working title for Windows Vista before the official name was released.

★ ''RKO 281''. The working title for ''Citizen Kane'', presumably instated to prevent the film's alleged subject, William Randolph Hearst, from finding out about it. Later used as the final title for a film about the production of Citizen Kane.

★ ''The Amazing Spider-Man''. The working title for ''Spider-Man 2'' during production.

★ ''Clowns Can't Sleep''. The working title for ''Ocean's Twelve'' during production.

★ ''QWERTY''. The working title for a Linkin Park song during their songwriting process in late 2006.

★ "Yesterday". This Beatles' song included the working lyric "Scrambled eggs" and was also known by that name.

★ ''I/O''. The working title for Peter Gabriel's ''Up'' album during production.

★ "Dolphin" was the working title for the Nintendo Gamecube.

★ "Revolution" was the working title for the Nintendo Wii.

★ ''Stand-Up'' and ''The Seinfeld Chronicles'' were the working titles for ''Seinfeld''. Also, the series finale was originally named "A Tough Nut to Crack", in order to throw off television viewers about the contents of what would actually happen in the final episode.

★ ''Absolutely Psychic'' was the working title for ''That's So Raven''.

★ ''Power Rangers: Stealth Force'' was a working title for 2003's ''. ''Power Rangers: Dino Tech'' was a working title for 2004's ''. ''Power Rangers: Drive Force'' and ''Power Rangers: Relic Hunters'' were both working titles for 2007's ''.

★ ''Bond 22'' is the current working title of the upcoming James Bond movie.

★ ''Cloverfield'' is the working title of an otherwise unnamed monster movie being produced by J.J. Abrams.

Working titles that stuck

Occasionally, the working title of a project becomes the ''actual'' title. Some notable examples include:

★ ''Manhattan Murder Mystery''

★ ''Snakes on a Plane''
:[Note: The directors planned to call it ''Pacific Air Flight 121''. In an interview in early 2006, Samuel L. Jackson, star of the film, claimed that once he learned about the movie title being changed he said: "What are you doing here? It's not ''Gone with the Wind''. It's not ''On the Waterfront''. It's ''Snakes on a Plane''!"]

★ ''Space Giraffe''

★ ''Spore''

★ ''High School Musical''

★ ''Game Boy Advance''

★ ''Super Mario Galaxy''