The Chicago Sun-Times reports that David Mamet’s play first seen at the Goodman Theatre in 1982 is on its way to the big screen. Dylan Walsh, William H. Macy, Julia Stiles, Joe Mantegna and Mena Suvari are catsed to star in Mamet’s own adaptation of his play ”Edmond.” Stuart Gordon, another Chicago stage alumnus, will direct.

”Edmond” centers on a successful businessman (Macy) who walks out on his family on the advice of a fortune teller. He plunges into New York’s hellish underworld, where he is mugged and robbed before he kills a pimp and a would-be actress, finally ending up in prison.

Walsh plays the police interrogator, and Stiles plays unfortunate waitress Glenna. Gordon, long the guiding spirit of Chicago’s Organic Theater, wrote and directed the cult horror movie classic ”Re-Animator” and co-wrote ”Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.”