It was just supposed to be a movie about a love triangle set against the backdrop of a literary festival, but then co-writer and director Conor McPherson visited Washington.
“I really wanted to visit ‘The Exorcist’ House and Georgetown. I just found it really, really inspiring,” the Irish playwright told Yeas & Nays.
“People think I’m absolutely crazy saying all this,” he added.
McPherson then added a supernatural element — ghosts — to his newest film, “The Eclipse,” which made its Washington debut in Georgetown on Tuesday night.
On his return to D.C., McPherson and actor Ciaran Hinds, who is the lead in “The Eclipse” and set to play Aberforth Dumbledore in the remaining “Harry Potter” films, visited the haunting steps before the screening. “It just takes you right up in a very strange gray-lit area up there,” Hinds said.
The two Irishmen then met up with Irish Ambassador Michael Collins at the AMC Georgetown.
“The Eclipse” just won an Irish Film & Television Award for Best Film. It opens April 9 at Landmark’s E Street Cinema.
