Borg/McEnroe

Shia LaBeouf’s John McEnroe faces off with Sverrir Gudnason’s Björn Borg in the sports drama about the greatest match in tennis history.

The dramatization of tennis’ greatest rivalry pits Shia LaBeouf against Sweden’s Sverrir Gudnason.

Today is the start of Wimbledon 2017 and the 140th anniversary of the world’s oldest tennis tournament. If you can’t actually make it to London to celebrate, you can watch a quick 30 seconds of Shia LaBeouf playing tennis

Shia LaBeouf would not be my first choice to play tennis pro John McEnroe; but hey, I’m not the guy making a movie about the rivalry between him and Björn Borg. The movie, the appropriately titled Borg/McEnroe, is actually a Swedish production (Borg’s from Sweden), with Swedish actor Sverrir Gudnason as Borg. And, yes, as you can see in the trailer above, that is Mr. LaBeouf as Mr. McEnroe.