Wonder Woman 1984 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Wonder Woman 1984 or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Wonder Woman 1984

[phyllis]

Part of the film was shot on 70mm IMAX cameras and expand aspect ratio during select sequences.

[lynn]

Simon Stagg, Maxwell Lord's business partner early in the film, is based on the DC Comics character of the same name; an unscrupulous businessman who is both adversary and father-in-law to Rex Mason, aka the superhero Metamorpho.

[bessie]

In the final scene when Wonder Woman is talking to the people of the world to renounce their wishes, the score "A Beautiful Lie" from Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) is playing in the background.

[javier]

Although Hans Zimmer scored the movie, the music during the scene where Diana realizes she can fly is Kanada's Death Pt. 2 (Adagio in D Minor) by John Murphy, from the movie Sunshine (2007).

[fred]

When Diana takes Steve around the Space Museum, one of the exhibits hanging from the ceiling is the craft that Major Steve Austen crashed, causing him to become The Six Million Dollar Man (1974)

[steve]

Like the first movie Diana shows Steve the 80s world. This is a nod to Steve introducing the world to Diana in Wonder Woman 2017.

[riley]

Barbara Minerva (Cheetah) is seen indulging in fur clothing. This is an homage to Priscilla Rich, the first Cheetah (Barbara was the third, and most famous), who enjoyed wearing animal furs and wore a magical fur cheetah costume.

[ella]

Pedro Pascal describes Max Lord as a dream seller: "He encompasses a component of the 1980s culture which is: get whatever you want, however you can, you're entitled to it! It's f***ing greed, of course, and that costs a great deal. But it's also about: How do you be your best self? How do you win? So he's definitely the face of success."

[sylvia]

Barbara is Barbara Minerva. Minerva is the Roman goddess of wisdom.

[chris]

At one point, Maxwell Lord's nose starts to bleed. In the comics, Maxwell Lord possesses mind control powers, a side effect of which are severe nose bleeds.

[mathew]

This is Pedro Pascal's second Wonder Woman feature, having previously appeared in the TV-pilot Wonder Woman (2011).

[terry]

At the start of the film Diana has a news article clipping from 1918 with the headline saying "The Great War Ends!". Also, if you look closely, you can see a picture of General Erich Ludendorff (played by Danny Huston), one of the villains from the previous film.

[victoria]

The Amazon Asteria is played by Lynda Carter, who played Diana Prince/Wonder Woman in Wonder Woman (1975).

[wallace]

The song played at the end of the film when Diana is has a conversation with the man Steve Trevor's spirit possesses is "I won't leave you" by Clinton Shorter. The song was previously used in the disaster film Pompeii (2014). Curiously, one of the film's characters in Pompeii, Atticus, is played by fellow WB/DCEU actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje who appeared as Killer Croc in Suicide Squad (2016).

[stephanie]

Gabriella Wilde's first film role in 6 years, after having last done the film Squatters (2014). Wilde is not a full-time film actress, as she's committed entirely to fashion modeling.

[amber]

The Wrap reported in March 2020 that WB executives were considering releasing the movie directly on streaming instead of theaters due to the health concerns of the Coronavirus. They ended up releasing it on HBO Max and in theaters on Dec. 25 that year.

[jessie]

The film has had seven release dates, the first being December 20th, 2019. Then it was moved up to November 8th, 2019 in order to avoid competing against Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019). Once it was announced that the 25th James Bond film was to leave its originally scheduled November 1st spot, Warner Bros. moved the film's release up another week, in order to take an extra week advantage. The fourth was when it was pushed back by 7 months to June 5th, 2020 as Warner Bros. realized the success of the first film's June 2nd, 2017 release. The fifth change was made on March 24th, 2020 when it was moved to August 14, 2020 due to concerns about the COVID-19 virus. It was again moved to Oct. 2 in June when Warner Brothers shifted its entire schedule of upcoming films. Then in September 2020, it was pushed once more to December 25th, 2020 and released on streaming at the same time.

[ruby]

Principal photography began on June 13, 2018, under the working title Magic Hour.

[norma]

In the montage early in the film featuring 80s Washington DC, several teenage girls shoplift a pair of sunglasses from a store called Commander Salamander. This was a real store in the Georgetown neighborhood of DC that specialized in new wave and punk attire, becoming a popular local destination throughout the '80s and '90s before it closed in 2010. Its reappearance during filming thrilled local residents who remembered the shop, and was featured in several local blogs and papers.