Famous faces

Sharp-eyed viewers will spot a few surprising familiar faces hidden in the chaos of The Running Man.

Fleetwood Mac legend Mick Fleetwood appears as the leader of the underground resistance, and in a sly nod, his character “Mic” is implied to be playing himself.

At one point he tells Schwarzenegger’s Ben Richards: “You’re one of the cops who locked up all my friends, burned my songs,” a line Fleetwood confirmed in interviews was a wink to his real-life music career being “erased” by the film’s totalitarian regime.

Another star that cameoed in The Running Man is Dweezil Zappa, the son of avant-garde icon Frank Zappa, as one of the rebels in the resistance.

As for those elaborate, high-energy dance sequences, they were choreographed by a then-unknown Paula Abdul, who was working as a Lakers Girl at the time and would soon become a global pop star.