Lynda Carter who played Wonder Woman in Wonder Woman (1975) was approached to voice the goddess Hera, but had to refuse due to scheduling conflicts.
According to Christopher Drake, an earlier cut of the film was submitted to the Motion Picture Association (MPA) and received an R rating. It was later re-cut to a PG-13 rating.
(at around 3 mins) The cyclops that Artemis kills in the opening battle is based on Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion design in Jason et les Argonautes (1963).
This film is loosely based on the first storyline of the second ongoing "Wonder Woman" comic book series in 1987, "Gods and Mortals" by George Pérez, Len Wein and Greg Potter.