We know: You love Han Solo. But the generic title of his standalone prequel movie — Solo: A Star Wars Story— left many fans feeling colder than a carbonite freezing chamber.
Still, you can always count on Twitter to smuggle in the jokes. And the fact that director Ron Howard revealed the title in a Twitter video, in which he is seen flipping a giant and easily photoshop-able card, meant the inevitable parodies arrived faster than the Millennium Falcon doing the Kessel Run.
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Here follows a field guide to every breed of joke the Twitterati could deliver. First of all, the Ron Howard in Arrested Developmentgag:
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There were porg jokes galore. Bonus points to this one for including an accidental dollar sign — because Lucasfilm's merchandising department can imagine quite a bit of wealth at the moment.
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You want a Solo cup, a porg, and a prequel reference in one place? Here you go.
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Even the colon in Solo: A Star Wars Storywas a source of amusement.
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True fact: there was already a 1996 movie called Solo. It didn't do very well.
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And of course there's the original red cup, for which Han Solo was originally named by George Lucas. Hey, even Han gets sued sometimes:
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Alternate titles abounded:
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Of course, there's always someone around to harsh your mellow:
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There was plenty of snark left over for the film's troubled path to the screen, which has included the firing of two directors -- and the still-unanswered question of who gets the director credit on Solo.
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Going somewhere solo? Here's your new go-to gag.
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Of course, the truly hardcore solo just don't go out at all.
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Surprisingly few people (like this author) made a Star Wars Special Edition joke ...
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... possibly because the crew got their shot in first.
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And finally, there's this extremely obscure fan joke, based on the fact that the character was parodied as "Ham Salad" in the 1978 indie comedy short Hardware Wars:
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Solo: A Star Wars Storyopens May 25, 2018, starring Alden Ehrenreich as the guy who has to overcome everyone's misgivings.
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