The arresting image on this poster was created for which 1987 drama featuring a 12-year-old Christian Bale playing a posh British boy who becomes a prisoner of war?

Although it eventually recouped its estimated budget of $35 million, Empire of the Sun was initially a box office disappointment. Director Steven Spielberg later commented that it "....wasn't a very commercial project, it wasn't going to have a broad audience appeal... I've earned the right to fail commercially."

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