“Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” director Chris Columbus is set to direct a feature film about Robert F. Kennedy’s presidential run in 1968, according to Variety.

Columbus recently acquired the rights to Thurston Clarke’s book “The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America,” which he will adapt either alone or with a partner.

I haven’t read Clarke’s book yet, but from what I’ve read in reviews on the Web, he apparently focuses less on Kennedy as a politician but more as a brave man who stood up to let America know he would help heal the country’s moral wounds.

Columbus’s film will also take quite a different approach than Emilio Estevez’s 2006 drama “Bobby,” a fictional account of the events at the Ambassador Hotel on the day Kennedy was assassinated.

After directing the first two “Harry Potter” flick, Columbus moved on to helm “Rent.” He is currently working on the post-production for “I Love You, Beth Cooper,” a comedy based on Larry Doyle’s novel.