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" Star Trek&amp;#039;s William Shatner has expressed confidence that director JJ Abrams&amp;#039;s upcoming Star Wars Episode 7 will please audiences. Shatner jokingly called Abrams a &amp;quot;pig&amp;quot; in February for taking the Star Wars job after rebooting Star Trek.   &amp;quot;[JJ is] probably the most talented director of that ilk that we have, but he&amp;#039;s gone too far this time,&amp;quot; Shatner said at the time. The original Star Trek star spoke again about the upcoming Star Wars film on Entertainment Weekly Radio, and this time offered more serious praise for Abrams. &amp;quot;JJ is a terrific director, and he gives you a great ride,&amp;quot; Shatner declared. &amp;quot;He knows how to make the movie large with the special effects and everything. And that&amp;#039;s going to be wonderful.&amp;quot; He continued: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s going to be wonderful for both franchises. He certainly has enlivened Star Trek. I&amp;#039;m looking forward to seeing what he&amp;#039;s going to do because he&amp;#039;s going to do something different, that&amp;#039;s for sure.&amp;quot;  Shatner added that Abrams was the perfect choice to take over the Star Wars franchise, given the financial success of the Star Trek movies. &amp;quot;There are very few people who can make those kinds of movies, to have the sensibility,&amp;quot; the star said. &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s got a lot of wonderful people around him. He&amp;#039;ll make a fabulous movie.&amp;quot; Abrams&amp;#039;s Star Wars Episode 7 will reportedly be released in December 2015. Shatner poked fun at the rivalry between Star Trek and Star Wars by appearing in a sketch with Billy Dee Williams on Jimmy Kimmel Live earlier in the year. Photo Gallery - &amp;#039;Star Wars&amp;#039; then and now: "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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