The New Rose Hotel was based on one of the short stories in "Burning Chrome", an anthology of the short fiction of William Ford Gibson. He also wrote the short story and the screenplay for "Johnny Mnemonic", and is the guy who coined the term "cyberspace" in his 1982 novel "Neuromancer", which was soon elevated to cult status as one of the first novels in a new science fiction sub-genre called Cyberpunk.
The basic premise of this film is that corporate espionage has changed. It makes no sense to steal patents and technologies in this near future, because they are all obsolete in six months. The only true value is the minds of the men who create the valuable replacement technologies. Christopher Walken and Willem Dafoe play a couple of corporate raiders/spies who specialize in getting the top minds to defect from one company to another. Asia Argento is the hooker they recruit to assist them in their biggest score. Things go wrong. Really, really wrong.
Director: Abel Ferrara
Cast: Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe, Asia Argento, Annabella Sciorra, John Lurie, Yoshitaka Amano, Gretchen Mol
Country: USA
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
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