If a screenwriter were to write a fictional drama about a 21st-century princess’s escape, recapture, imprisonment and release, it might be dismissed as too unbelievable. But the real-life story of Dubai’s Princess Latifa and her escape, recapture, imprisonment and release has inspired a new drama.
A four-part series titled The Escape will go into production next year. With a script by the award-winning British writer, Lindsay Shapero, it will tell the story of Latifa, who with the help of her close friend Tiina Jauhiainen fled Dubai in 2018, only for both women to be forcibly returned and interrogated.
