Mexican actress Salma Hayek will return to movie screens in a comedy alongside Adam Sandler, after a break in which she was producing and acting for television, Hollywood media reported Wednesday.

Sandler co-wrote the new project and his "Happy Gilmore" director Dennis Dugan is onboard, said the Hollywood press. It will start shooting in the coming months, ready for release in 2010. Hayek wed French businessman Francois-Henri Pinault last month in Paris. The couple have an infant daughter together. She became famous after starring in a telenovela in her native Mexico when she was 22 years old, before moving to Hollywood.

Hayek joins funnyman Sandler and his fellow former saturday Night Live stars Chris Rock, Rob Schneider and David Spade in a comedy about best friends from high school who reunite 30 years later, according to Variety. The 42 year-old star of "Once Upon a Time in Mexico" and "Traffic" has been devoting time to producing the US TV series "Ugly Betty" and guest-starring in the Golden Globe-winning "30 Rock."

Hayek has also starred in the action flicks "Desperado" and "Wild Wild West" and appeared in "Dogma." Her role as the eccentric Mexican painter Frida Kahlo in the film "Frida" earned Hayek a best actress nomination at the 2003 Oscars.

Source: AFP