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Preliminary title of a creative work
"Production title" redirects here. Not to be confused with
Production logo
.
A
working title
is a preliminary name for a product or project. The usage is especially common in
film
and
TV
,
gaming
,
music
and
publishing
.
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It is often styled in trade publications as
(wt)
[2]
and is synonymous with
production title
and
tentative title
.
Purpose
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Working titles are used mainly because an official
title
has not yet been decided upon or to intentionally disguise the real nature of a project.
Usage as production titles
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Working titles are primarily a practical matter, just to prevent confusion as ideas for release titles can keep on changing for a variety of reasons.
For example, while
James Bond
films are commonly produced under numerical titles such as
Bond 22
until the official title is announced as part of its marketing, release titles may also change because of significant changes to the plot during production, as happened with
Disney
's
The Emperor's New Groove
,
whose working title was
Kingdom of the Sun
.
In some cases a working title may ultimately be used as the release title, as in the case of leading man
Samuel L. Jackson
insisting on the title
Snakes on a Plane
, after he learned the title was going to be changed to
Pacific Air Flight 121
upon release.
Usage as a ruse title
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Fake production titles are frequently used by high-profile films or television series to prevent undesired attention by the press or fandom, price gouging by suppliers
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and casual or targeted theft.
Notable examples of ruse titles include
Blue Harvest
(
Return of the Jedi
),
Red Gun
(
House of the Dragon
),
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and the
Batman
films
Batman Begins
,
The Dark Knight
and
The Dark Knight Rises
, which were produced under the titles
The Intimidation Game
,
Rory's First Kiss
and
Magnus Rex
.
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See also
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References
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