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 . It is often styled in trade publications as (wt) and is synonymous with production title and tentative title .
6-565: Soul Soldier (produced under the working title Men of the Tenth ; originally released as The Red, White, and Black ; released on home video in the United States as Buffalo Soldier ; released on home video in Australia as Black Cavalry ; also called Soul Soldiers ) is a 1970 American blaxploitation Western film. The film was initially produced by Hirschman-Northern Productions under
12-445: 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
18-518: 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. 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 and casual or targeted theft. Notable examples of ruse titles include Blue Harvest ( Return of
24-463: The film as a Native American warrior. Isabel Sanford portrays the character Isabel Taylor. Janee Michelle and Robert DoQui share nude sex scenes in the film. Rafer Johnson , who had won medals as a decathlete at the Olympic Games , starred in the film and intended to use all the money he earned from acting in the film to start his own film company. The financial success of the film led to
30-431: The production of several other films in the genre. When the film was released on home video, it was renamed Buffalo Soldier . Working title 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. Working titles are primarily a practical matter, just to prevent confusion as ideas for release titles can keep on changing for
36-437: The working title Men of the Tenth . After it was filmed on 16 mm film and released under the title The Red, White, and Black , producer Stuart Hirschman asked John Cardos to salvage the film, and Cardos, after looking at the existing footage , insisted that the entire film needed to be reshot in 35mm film . Cardos directed the reshoot, which was entirely shot on an Arriflex 35 IIC. Richard Dix 's son Robert Dix appears in
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