The Biggest Differences Between Netflix's Selena Series and the Iconic 1997 Film

The series' format allows the script (along with the production timeline) to be much longer, allowing writer and executive producer Moisés Zamora to go much deeper into Selena's rags-to-riches story. Although the movie follows Selena from childhood to her meteoric rise to fame, the series goes into unexpected, intimate details about Selena's family life. One example? How Selena got her name: the woman giving birth next to Selena's parents at the hospital had a son, so "gave" them the name she wanted to give her own daughter. And the rest was history.