Lux Pascal, Pedro Pascal's trans sister, to star in upcoming thriller 'Summer War'

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Lux Pascal has landed a huge role in an upcoming thriller based on Chilean novel The Third Reich, in which a war strategy game leads to real world consequences.

Lux Pascal has landed a huge role in the upcoming thriller movie Summer War, based on late Chilean author Roberto Bolaño's posthumously discovered novel.

The movie will follow the story of the book, The Third Reich, in which German war games champion Udo Berger returns to his childhood summer home in a small Spanish town on the Costa Brava. Berger and his girlfriend, Ingeborg, befriend another vacationing German couple, but their trip is quickly turned upside-down when one of their new acquaintances vanishes at sea.

In searching for answers, Berger engages a local in a round of his favorite World War II strategy game, Rise and Decline of the Third Reich — a real strategy game released by Avalon Hill in 1974. Through their match, Berger "discovers that the game’s consequences may be all too real," the novel's synopsis reads.

Bolaño wrote the book in 1989, but it wasn't published until 2010, when it was found with among his papers several years after his death in 2003 from liver failure, according to his biography by the Barcelona Provincial Council. Many other stories by Bolaño were also posthumously discovered and published.

It has not been revealed which role Pascal was cast in, but the 31-year-old transgender actor has recently been making waves online and in the media. Last month, she attended the 2024 Emmy Awards with her brother, Mandalorian and Last of Us star Pedro Pascal, with both of the artists proudly showing off their sibling love.