{
  "id": 17289,
  "url": "https://variety.com/2026/film/news/morgan-freeman-overlook-bad-script-for-money-1236829325",
  "title": "Morgan Freeman Says You Can ‘Overlook’ a Mediocre Script ‘If They’re Going to Pay You Enough’ Money",
  "summary": "Morgan Freeman recently told The New York Times that he’s okay signing on for a movie with a mediocre script as long as the pay is good enough. “If somebody offers you a job, it’s very nice if they’re offering you also an exciting script, but in reality, two or three things come into play,” […]",
  "authors": "Zack Sharf",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "jobs-economy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "us",
  "published_at": "2026-08-06T21:56:46.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-07T05:10:58.501Z",
  "source_slug": "x-variety-ai",
  "source_name": "Variety (AI)",
  "source_homepage": "https://variety.com/t/artificial-intelligence/",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17289",
  "original_url": "https://variety.com/2026/film/news/morgan-freeman-overlook-bad-script-for-money-1236829325",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}