Federico Fellini's script for perhaps the most famous unmade film in Italian cinema, The Journey of G. Mastorna (1965/6), is published here for the first time in full English translation. It offers the reader a remarkable insight into Fellini's creative process and his fascination with human mortality and the great mystery of death.

The only available English-language translation of the script for Federico Fellini’s celebrated unmade film The Journey of G. Mastorna Includes an in-depth analysis of the circumstances surrounding the non-making of the film and of the script within the context of Fellini’s career Analyzes the script in the light of Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life and Fredric Brown’s sci-fi novel What Mad Universe. Relates Mastorna to thinking in the sci-fi genre and science worlds Includes summaries of all of Fellini’s scripts for other unmade films: the book is an important addition to Fellini studies and deals in detail with perhaps the last relatively unexplored area of his work.