Who Is In Robert Rodriguez's Shorts

Robert Rodriguez always has like five projects going at the same time. He's been hard at work "developing" Barbarella (or trying to convince the studio to give him the money to make it with his future wife Rose McGowan in the lead) and just announced a TV show called Women In Chains (also starring Rose McGowan), which he's pitching to various networks, but his next feature film to go into production will be... drumroll please...Shorts is a family comedy adventure that follows an 11-year-old boy who is hit in the head with a rainbow-colored rock that grants wishes to anyone who holds it. Chaos erupts in this small suburb where "all the houses look the same and everyone works for Black Box, manufacturer of the ultimate communication and do-it-all gadget." Sounds more Spy Kids or The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D than Grindhouse or Sin City. Jon Cryer, William H. Macy, Leslie Mann and James Spader have signed on to star. I'm surprised Rodriguez didn't try to squese McGowan into this project as well. Rodriguez, always a one-man show, will direct based on his own screenplay, and serve as producer, director of photography, editor, visual effects supervisor and, who knows, he might even provide the score (not yet confirmed). But what else is new?