Film producers would apparently like to kill you with cuteness: according to German newspaper B.Z., a producer offered the Berlin Zoo $5 million for the film rights to Knut the Baby Polar Bear’s life story. Even more disgustingly cute, producer Ash R. Shah would like Suri Cruise to do the speaking parts for Knut.

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ one and a half year old daughter met the polar bear when Annie Leibovitz photographed him for the cover of Vanity Fair; Annie photographed the Cruise-Holmes family a few months before the Knut shoot.

“With his friendly character, he’s serves as an ambassador for the Earth’s problems: climate change and the melting polar ice caps. A movie about Knut would affect people all over the world,” Shah told the paper.

Heiner Klös, curator at the Zoo Berlin told People that the request was received but he didn’t like that the press was already involved. “I can confirm that we received the offer and that we are giving it due consideration,” he said. “When we have come to a decision, then we will handle the matter discreetly.”

Shah added of his plans, “I see the heartwarming relationship between Knut and his caretaker, Thomas Doerflein at the center of the movie … Suri [Cruise] could speak the English voice of Knut.”

According to Shah, he has yet to hear back from Suri’s agent, and that’s probably because Suri is a baby and doesn’t have representation.

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