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"Star Wars veterans Ben Burtt, Dennis Muren and Matthew Wood have praised the appointment of JJ Abrams as Episode 7 director. The trio have all collaborated with Abrams on Super 8 and worked across George Lucas&amp;#039;s six Star Wars blockbusters.   Dennis Muren, the visual effects supervisor whose credits also include ET and Jurassic Park, said of Abrams via a Lucasfilm statement: &amp;quot;He puts everything he has into his work. &amp;quot;He totally immerses himself. He&amp;#039;s got such a visual eye, which is so important to the Star Wars films. It seems that a lot of the same things that were in George when he made the first Star Wars films are also in JJ. &amp;quot;I think he&amp;#039;s going to fit into the other movies perfectly, with the energy that JJ has. We&amp;#039;re kick-starting Star Wars again with dynamite. It will knock people out, including the people who get to work on it. I think it&amp;#039;s a great choice.&amp;quot;  Oscar-winning sound designer Ben Burtt, responsible for the classic lightsaber sounds and R2-D2&amp;#039;s droid beeps, added: &amp;quot;JJ represents the next generation of filmmakers from those that were making Star Wars when I started. &amp;quot;When he was a teen, he was a fan of Star Wars, and a great deal of his love for movies came out of his reaction of that first Star Wars film. You feel that he&amp;#039;s already invested so many years in it, and he&amp;#039;s going to propel it forward in a new way. &amp;quot;In other words, you&amp;#039;re having a fan who has grown up and developed tremendous directorial skills finding himself at the steering wheel to take the franchise into the next stage. I feel like I&amp;#039;m there watching history turn over from one era to another.&amp;quot;  Matthew Wood, supervising sound editor of Super 8 and veteran of the Star Wars prequels, said that he shared &amp;quot;the same nostalgic love&amp;quot; with Abrams. &amp;quot;Now we have someone from that generation who is going to be at the helm of the Star Wars franchise that I&amp;#039;ve known and worked on, so it&amp;#039;s a great circle,&amp;quot; he commented. &amp;quot;Just seeing what he did with Super 8 and capturing those moments, and knowing what was so special about that era, it&amp;#039;s going to speak to a new generation of audience as well.&amp;quot; Disney&amp;#039;s Star Wars: Episode 7 is due for release in 2015. &amp;gt; JJ Abrams confirmed for &amp;#039;Star Wars Episode 7&amp;#039;, still involved in &amp;#039;Star Trek&amp;#039; series &amp;gt; JJ Abrams movie and TV career in pictures: From &amp;#039;Alias&amp;#039; to Star Wars &amp;gt; JJ Abrams to direct &amp;#039;Star Wars Episode 7&amp;#039;: Hollywood reactions Watch Ewan McGregor talk about the upcoming Star Wars film below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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