Brooke Shields signs for role in family film

By Steven Zeitchik

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - After a 10-year hiatus from mainstream movies, Brooke Shields is returning to the big screen in the family comedy "Furry Vengeance."

Also joining the Summit/Participant Media project are Dick Van Dyke, Ken Jeong and Samantha Bee.

Brendan Fraser is playing the lead in director Roger Kumble's live-action film, which centers 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 concentrated on television and Broadway. She 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.

Van Dyke has had a host of television and film roles during his long career, which most recently included a turn in Shawn Levy's "Night at the Museum" franchise.

Jeong is fresh off his scene-stealing turn as a gangster in the summer hit "The Hangover" and has signed for several other comedies in the wake of that success.

Bee is a longtime correspondent for "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" who has a supporting role in Woody Allen's "Whatever Works."

(Editing by SheriLinden at Reuters)