--- title: Rogue One Honest Trailer: 'Expensive Plot Hole Fix' description: Rogue One just became the latest Star Wars film to get the hilarious honest trailer treatment by the team over at Screen Junkies. canonical: https://time.com/4735479/rogue-one-honest-trailer/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-12T01:50:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:42:43.914Z og:title: Watch the Honest Trailer for 'Rogue One' og:description: Is the Star Wars standalone "the world's biggest budget fan film?" og:url: https://time.com/4735479/rogue-one-honest-trailer/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch the Honest Trailer for 'Rogue One' twitter:description: Is the Star Wars standalone "the world's biggest budget fan film?" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The Honest Trailer for _Rogue One_ Shows It's Really Just an Expensive Plot Hole Fix  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Apr 12, 2017 1:50 AM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Apr 12, 2017 1:50 AM UTC [_Rogue One_](http://time.com/4597915/rogue-one-review-star-wars-story/)just became the latest [_Star Wars_ film](http://time.com/4282640/honest-trailer-force-awakens/) to get the [honest trailer](http://time.com/4678585/oscars-2017-honest-trailer/) treatment. After poking fun at how the movie is really just a rehash of previous galaxy-far-far-away installments, the Screen Junkies team dubbed the standalone a $200 million attempt to fix one of the saga’s biggest loopholes — the unexplained flaw in the Death Star. “Get ready for Disney’s first _Star Wars_ anthology movie, because there’s no way in hell they’d call it _Star Wars_ _Prequel 4_,” the narrator jokes as an image of the prequel trilogy appears, adding, “in what has to be the most money anyone has every spent to fill in a plot hole.” Watch the video above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4735479/rogue-one-honest-trailer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4735479/rogue-one-honest-trailer/"},"headline":"The Honest Trailer for Rogue One Shows It's Really Just an Expensive Plot Hole Fix","datePublished":"2017-04-12T01:50:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:42:43.914Z","description":"Is the Star Wars standalone \"the world's biggest budget fan film?\"","url":"https://time.com/4735479/rogue-one-honest-trailer/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies","Star Wars topic","honest trailers","Rogue one"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4735479/rogue-one-honest-trailer/","name":"The Honest Trailer for Rogue One Shows It's Really Just an Expensive Plot Hole Fix"}}]}] ```