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Watch: Borg-McEnroe Film to Open Toronto Film Festival

The Wimbledon final comes to Toronto next month.

The new Borg-McEnroe feature film—chronicling the dramatic Bjorn Borg vs. John McEnroe 1980 Wimbledon final—will open the Toronto Film Festival on September 7th, at Roy Thomson Hall.

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The famed Fire and Ice rivalry is reignited with the widespread release of the new Borg-McEnroe feature film on September 15th, 2017.

See the trailer for the movie above.

Swedish actor Sverrir Gudnason is cast as Swedish Iceman Borg and bears a striking resemblance to the former world No. 1.

Shia LaBeouf, who plays McEnroe, has called Borg and McEnroe "extraordinary men in an extraordinary situation" and said he sees the iconic rivalry as "a masculine love story."

Here's how the actors stack up to the champions.

The classic 1980 Wimbledon final in which Borg fought off McEnroe remains one of the highest-quality clashes in Wimbledon history.

The mercurial McEnroe fought off five match points to win that fourth-set tiebreaker (he saved seven match points in the fourth set overall), but Borg’s brilliance in the fifth set saw the stoic Swede earn a 1-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-7 (16), 8-6 victory to capture his fifth consecutive Wimbledon crown.

"You had two different personalities," Borg said. "I come from Sweden, where our mentality is a little laid-back, a little more quiet. John grew up outside New York and he’s a little bit more outspoken."

Here's what McEnroe has to say about the film: