Naming your movie is even harder than naming your child. No, stick with us on this one.
Your movie is going to live for longer (even if it's awful), it will come into contact with a wider cross-section of critical people and an entire marketing campaign will exist, based on that name.
So it's therefore understandable that a title may go through a number of different options, especially considering the amount of people involved. Here's a look at an alternate universe where films all go by very different names...
Back to the Future
...was almost known as:Spaceman from Pluto
Year: 1985
Annie Hall
...was almost known as:Anhedonia
Year: 1977
Final Destination
...was almost known as:Flight 180
Year: 2000
Last Action Hero
...was almost known as:Extremely Violent
Year: 1993
Cars
...was almost known as:Route 66
Year: 2006
The Breakfast Club
...was almost known as:The Lunch Bunch
Year: 1985
Hancock
...was almost known as:Tonight, He Comes
Year: 2008
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
...was almost known as:Head Cheese
Year: 1974
Obsessed
...was almost known as:Oh No She Didn't
Year: 2009
Vertigo
...was almost known as:Fear and Trembling
Year: 1958
Pulp Fiction
...was almost known as:Black Mask
Year: 1994
2001: A Space Odyssey
...was almost known as:How The Solar Space Was Won
Year: 1968
Field Of Dreams
...was almost known as: Shoeless Joe
Year: 1989
Unforgiven
...was almost known as:The Cut Whore Killings
Year: 1992
Saturday Night Fever
...was almost known as:The Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night
Year: 1977
Boys Don't Cry
...was almost known as:Take It Like A Man
Year: 1999
Casablanca
...was almost known as:Everybody Come To Rick's
Year: 1942
Snakes On A Plane
...was almost known as:Pacific Air Flight 121
Year: 2006
Scream
...was almost known as:Scary Movie
Year: 1996
American Pie
...was almost known as:East Great Falls High
Year: 1999
Goodfellas
...was almost known as:Wiseguy
Year: 1990
Child's Play
...was almost known as:Batteries Not Included
Year: 1988
The Last Exorcism
...was almost known as:Cotton
Year: 2010
Alien
...was almost known as:Star Beast
Year: 1979
The Other Guys
...was almost known as:The B-Team
Year: 2010
E.T.
...was almost known as: Night Skies
Year: 1982
Robin Hood
...was almost known as:Nottingham
Year: 2010
Licence To Kill
...was almost known as:Licence Revoked
Year: 1989
American Wedding
...was almost known as:American Pie 3: Piece Of Pie
Year: 2003
Hollywoodland
...was almost known as:Truth, Justice and the American Way
Year: 2006
Fatal Attraction
...was almost known as:Affairs Of The Heart
Year: 1987
The Ring
...was almost known as:Static
Year: 2002
Big
...was almost known as:When I Grow Up
Year: 1988
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
...was almost known as:Watch The Skies
Year: 1977
Stand By Me
...was almost known as:The Body
Year: 1986
Basic Instinct
...was almost known as:Love Hurts
Year: 1992
Shutter Island
...was almost known as:Ashecliffe
Year: 2010
Letters From Iwo Jima
...was almost known as:Red Sun, Black Sand
Year: 2006
Predator
...was almost known as:Hunter
Year: 1987
Some Like It Hot
...was almost known as:Not Tonight Josephine
Year: 1959
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