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This article is about the term working title. For the film production company, see Working Title Films.

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 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.

• 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 Star Wars.

• 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 Star Wars—Episode I: The Phantom Menace. When the film prints were in shipping circulation to theaters, the cans were printed with the working title She Stands Alone to avoid the theft of such a high profile film.

• Blue Harvest was the fake working title for Star Wars—Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. 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.

• 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.

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

• Power Rangers: Dino Tech was a working title for 2004's Power Rangers: Dino Thunder. Power Rangers: Drive Force and Power Rangers: Relic Hunters were both working titles for Power Rangers: Operation Overdrive

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