The film was released in 2018, which coincided Louisa May Alcott's novel's 150th anniversary publishing date since the book was first released in 1868.
In the original novel set in the Civil War, Papa March is an Army Chaplain. Since this version is produced by a Catholic organization, Paulist Productions, he was presumably changed to an Army Surgeon so that he would not be a married and therefore non-Catholic chaplain.
Michael Flynn previously played the father of Lucas Grabeel in Halloween Town, in this movie he plays his grandfather.
Lea Thompson and Lucas Grabeel have previously worked together as mother and son in Freeform's (formerly known as ABC Family) family drama television series Switched At Birth (2011-2017).
Strangely, the 1994 Little Women and the 2018 Little Women were rated PG, even though this is G-rated material. It remains a mystery why 1994 was rated PG and not G. The MPAA description describes "two scenes of strong language." Still, there are no swears in this movie or anything inappropriate for a family audience. Rumor has it the studio pressured the MPAA to rate this PG for box office and marketing reasons so this could be sold to a teenage girl audience; so the MPAA complied, even though this is a G-rated movie. (Curiously, the 2018 version of Little Women was also rated PG-13, but that had a scene of a woman giving birth topless from behind).
Louisa May Alcott: Author cameo; a picture of her on the cover of a biography appears prominently on the bookshelf in the library where Jo and Freddy converse.