eXistenZAn interview with Salman Rushdie inspired visionary director David Cronenberg to create the film "eXistenZ," starring Jennifer Jason Leigh and Willem Dafoe. The story is set in a near future where game designers are revered and players can physically enter games using a groundbreaking system called eXistenZ. When Allegra Geller, the inventor of eXistenZ, is targeted by anti eXistenZ fanatics, she goes into hiding with the help of a loyal guard.