eXistenZ, Micro-Pod

original movie prop

”Hey, tell me the truth… are we still in the game?”

This is a hero micro-pod from David Cronenberg’s 1999 sci-fi thriller eXistenZ. Allegra Gellar (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is a game designer on the run from assassins, and must play her latest virtual reality game with marketing trainee Ted Pikul (Jude Law) in order to find out if the game still works. This micro-pod appears when Allegra and Ted, having gone into the first level of the virtual reality game, are provided with ‘micro-pods’. They then insert the pods into the bio-ports in the base of their spines. This specific micro-pod came in a production container labeled as hero and a cut out section of the product card it was originally attached to.