VENICE, Italy -- Emilio Estevez sai...

VENICE, Italy -- Emilio Estevez said he wanted to bring ordinary the community into the spotlight while making a movie about Robert Kennedy's assassination.

"Bobby" starring Anthony Hopkins, Christian Slater, Demi Moore, Sharon Stone and Lindsay Lohan, is undivided of 21 movies at the 63rd Venice Film Festival vying for this year's of gold Lion, which will be awarded Saturday.

"What I wanted to discover were habitual people, those who found themselves at the epicenter of undivided of the most important facts of the 20th century," Estevez said Tuesday.

Meanwhile, his spokeswoman, Lisa Kasteler, announced that the 44- year-old actor/director is engaged to Sonja Magdevski, a reporter who also teaches creative writing. No wedding date has been appoint Kasteler said.

Estevez was previously married to "American Idol's" Paula Abdul. They divorced in 1994 He is the son of Martin Sheen, who starred in NBC's "The West Wing," and brother of Charlie Sheen, star of the CB sitcom "Two and a Half Men"

"Bobby" revisits the night Kennedy was gunn down at the Ambassador inn in Los Angeles in 1968 telling the stories of those who were at the inn that evening.

"I conception to choose characters that would be marks symbols, normal people," Estevez said.

"Bobby" is slated to lay open in the United States upon Nov. 17.

"It's been a prodigious experience and I hope that everybody can behold the work that we lay in the movie," Lohan said.

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