Toon auteur Mamoru Oshii's next pic will be futuristic gladiator tale "
The Sky Crawlers," based on the eponymous sci-fi novels by Hiroshi Mori.
Skedded for release in 2008, "
The Sky Crawlers" will center on Japanese teens stuck in perpetual adolescence and trained since birth to fight in wars that are really a form of amusement.