That's the word from Buzz Lightyear himself, Tim Allen. "We have John Lasseter, the original director, and I believe Tom is on board," he adds, referring to Tom Hanks -- a.k.a. the voice of his cowboy buddy, Woody.

The follow-up to "Toy Story" and "Toy Story 2" was en route to being made by Disney without the creative talents of Lasseter and the rest of the Pixar animation team that made the first two movies instant classics. When Pixar was acquired by Disney in January, Lasseter, the Pixar co-founder who is now Disney's Chief Creative Officer, pulled the plug on that version immediately and literally put "TS3" back on the drawing boards.

Tim refers to the latest version of the story as "stronger" than the old one.

"I don't like doing them too much," he says of lending his voice to animated films. "It's not my favorite gig, working alone in dark studios. But I love the end result. My daughter, at 16, still plays the 'Toy Story' DVDs with her friends," he adds. "Those, and the 'Home Improvement' collections."

With his "Zoom" feature coming out Aug. 11, Tim -- who's been busy making "Wild Hogs" with John Travolta, Martin Lawrence and William H. Macy -- is looking forward to some summer down time. "I have a boat up in Michigan," he says, "and a rustic cabin in Colorado, up in the Mountains."

TOO BAD: "Prison Break's' Robert Knepper -- who plays the vile and wicked T-Bag on the Fox drama -- says he decided to spend his hiatus time with family instead of making movies, because "I had stuff that was sent my way that was too T-Bagesque. My character is very slithery and slimy. I want to do something completely different. I want to do comedy, I want to do a period piece...not the typical thing."

He adds that his "Prison Break" castmate, Wentworth Miller, "got the same thing offered to him: a lot of prison movies. We were both like, 'No, I don't want to do another prison movie right now. I just got out of prison.'"

Fans of the show know that the principals escaped in the season finale, but where they go from there is anybody's guess. When last seen, T-Bag was running for his life, with his severed left hand in tow. "Hopefully, he's going to get it sewn back on," says Knepper. "But I have a feeling it's going to go bye-bye. My fantasy is that I'm walking down the street and see a mannequin and go 'Ooh, there's a good idea.' I'll just strap the mannequin's hand on my stump, put a glove on it and be done with it." Stranger things have happened in TV land.

SOMETHING FUNNY: Having completed two movies for the Sci-fi Channel, "Slayer" and "Meltdown," Casper Van Dien has become the action genre go-to guy, but he admits he had much different goals when he began acting.

"When I first came out to Hollywood, I wanted to do physical comedy, but the real big thing that took off for me was 'Starship Troopers.' A lot of people see you in that genre, and you get hired for it," he notes. "The action part of it, maybe it's a residual leftover effect from my childhood. I love adventure and doing all that physical stuff. I'm lucky, because I'm living my dream and doing exactly what I'm wanting to do, so I have no regrets about anything."

SOMETHING FUNNY, TOO: Although Paget Brewster enjoys the intense material of her Showtime series, "Huff," she still longs to be funny.

"I've never done a drama before this -- only comedy. Sometimes, I miss the completely light, goofy set with no blood or people fighting," she admits. "Doing fight scenes with your husband, your kid, and the in-law is hard. When you're crying for five hours straight, that is something to learn, but I think I've gotten better."

Brewster says she did get a chance to get her comedy fix during hiatus when she worked on Wilmer Valderrama's "Unaccompanied Minors" movie, which will hit theaters in December. "The last day was me improvising for 13 hours with Teri Garr," she informs.

The fact that Brewster is getting opportunities to work in television and film has been a treat for the actress. "Nobody used to be able to do both. People who did movies wouldn't do TV, and now it's interchangeable," she says. "I think a lot has changed. All the new TV shows are with movie stars. It's wild."

With reports by Stephanie DuBois and Emily Feimster