 The television broadcast of the film and the related series was briefly referred to as "Werner Herzog’s Final Confessions", but eventually aired with the title "On Death Row".Certain voices in the production wanted the film's title to be "The Red Camaro", but Herzog disliked the hint of product placement in the title, and called it "not evocative at all".By August 2011, when its premiere at TIFF was announced, the title was changed to "Into the Abyss".