{"id":29999,"date":"2013-10-17T11:24:28","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T18:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=29999"},"modified":"2013-10-17T11:24:28","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T18:24:28","slug":"shatner-thumbs-up-for-abrams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2013\/10\/shatner-thumbs-up-for-abrams\/","title":{"rendered":"Shatner: Thumbs Up For Abrams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30002\" alt=\"ShatnerAbrams101713\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ShatnerAbrams101713.gif\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The original series&#8217; <strong>William Shatner<\/strong> is full of praise for<em> Star Trek into Darkness<\/em>&#8216; <strong>J.J. Abrams<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In a radio interview, Shatner complimented Abrams&#8217; movie-making abilities and expressed confidence in Abrams&#8217; other sci-fi project, <em>Star Wars Episode 7<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->&#8220;J.J. is a terrific director, and he gives you a great ride,&#8221; said Shatner. &#8220;He knows how to make the movie large with the special effects and everything. And that\u2019s going to be wonderful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s going to be wonderful for both franchises. He certainly has enlivened <em>Star Trek<\/em>. I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing what he&#8217;s going to do because he&#8217;s going to do something different, that&#8217;s for sure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are very few people who can make those kinds of movies, to have the sensibility. He&#8217;s got a lot of wonderful people around him. He&#8217;ll make a fabulous movie.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The original series&#8217; William Shatner is full of praise for Star Trek into Darkness&#8216; J.J&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[2407,2414],"class_list":["post-29999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-abrams","tag-shatner"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"10","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30005,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29999\/revisions\/30005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}