30 years later, the human star of Muppet Treasure Island looks back: ‘We would just play all day long’

While it only loosely followed the framework of Robert Louis Stevenson’s original novel, the story still centered on young Jim Hawkins in search of buried treasure with a map from his father. To fill the boots of that buccaneering boy, director Brian Henson cast the 14-year-old Kevin Bishop. And while most of the cast would be filled out by Muppets inhabiting various pirate characters, the movie also featured a few other humans. Most memorably there was Tim Curry playing the conniving pirate Long John Silver, who takes young Hawkins under his wing, only to betray him.