Brooke Shields: Signs for role in family film

Brooke Shields: Signs for role in family film

After ten year hiatus from mainstream movies, Brooke Shields is finally making a comeback to the big screen in the family comedy titled "Furry Vengeance."

Sources have thrown light on this news of Brooke Shields. According to them other artists like Dick Van Dyke, Ken Jeong and Samantha Bee also have joined the Summit/Participant Media project.

Brendan Fraser is playing the lead in director Roger Kumble's live-action film, which is centered on a real estate developer who gets more than he bargained for from a band of raccoons when he pushes into pristine territory. Shields will play the wife of Fraser's character.

The role marks the actress's first mainstream film work since 1999, when she starred in James Toback's hip-hop drama "Black and White." Since then, she has had parts in animated and DVD fare.

Over the past decade Shields, who is known for such movies as "The Blue Lagoon" and "Endless Love" earlier in her career, has focused more on television and Broadway. She also starred in the recently canceled NBC comedy-drama "Lipstick Jungle."

Shields has been in the news this week for her intimate eulogy of Michael Jackson at Tuesday's memorial in Los Angeles.