Age of The Nerd
Ron Howard’s Solo is of course a Star Wars film and made by Disney. Put the two together and you have yourself a huge marketing campaign. The marketing for the film already hit one major bump when the character teaser posters Disney released were allegedly plagiarized, but this latest promo comes in the form of a non-plagiarized Denny’s commercial which pays homage to Han Solo’s legacy. Denny’s, the family restaurant, not only teases the Sabaac card game in which Han Solo won the Millennium Falcon from Lando Calrissian, but they also announce a trading card set featuring characters from the upcoming film as well as a new Solo themed menu.
[su_youtube_advanced url=”https://youtu.be/uIWiCjiYi7o”]INSERT VIDEO HERE[/su_youtube_advanced]Now I’m a huge Star Wars fans but I’m not going to pretend to know the rules of Sabaac. Below are the rules for anyone who cares. Via Wookiepedia, do with it what you will.
Sabacc was a card game played in the galaxy. A sabacc deck comprised a number of face cards (including the Idiot, the Queen, the Evil One, and the Star) and four suits of fifteen pip cards (Flasks, Sabers, Staves, and Coins). The face value of the cards changed at random in play, but was locked as soon as the cards were placed on the sabacc table’s special suspension field. That particularity made sabacc a complex and unpredictable game, as a potential winning hand could turn into a losing one if not used at the right moment.
A sabacc player’s goal was to win the sabacc pot by collecting a hand of cards that totaled positive or negative 23, which generally would constitute a winning hand called Pure Sabacc. That hand could only be beaten by a rare and unbeatable hand called an Idiot’s Array,which were three cards with a 0, a 2, and a 3.
Solo: A Star Wars Story stars Alden Ehrenreich, Emilia Clarke, Donald Glover, Woody Harrelson, Paul Bettany, Joonas Suotamo, Thandie Newton, and Jon Favreau. The film is directed by Ron Howard and written by Jon and Lawrence Kasdan.
Board the Millennium Falcon and journey to a galaxy far, far away in Solo: A Star Wars Story, an all-new adventure with the most beloved scoundrel in the galaxy. Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian, in a journey that will set the course of one of the Star Wars saga’s most unlikely heroes. Solo: A Star Wars Story releases in U.S. Theaters on May 25, 2018.
