Hollywood bad boy Shia Labeouf has signed on to play tennis bad boy John McEnroe in Borg/McEnroe, an upcoming biopic about one of the greatest sports rivalries of all time. Borg/McEnroe will trace the long-running battle for supremacy in the tennis world in the 1970s and 1980s between McEnroe and Swedish star Bjorn Borg. Swedish actor Sverrir Gudnason (A Serious Game) will play Borg. Stellan Skarsgard has signed on to play Borg's coach Lennart Bergelin. Danish director Janus Metz, whose war documentary Armadillo won the grand prize at Cannes' Critics' Week in 2010, will direct. The cool, emotionless Borg
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- 5/14/2016
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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