This is… Sparta?
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Not uncommon for medieval armor to be segmented because they could not afford a single piece of fitted steel, only scraps, such things were expensive, and brigandines weren't invented yet. Some funeral effigies show scraps of steel just sort of tacked on to chain mail in strategic places. Heck late renaissance jackoplates were just scraps of steel sewn into a jacket. But this is the bronze age(which means it can be cast into a piece as big as you want), and a king.
Yes, there was brigandine, which consists of overlapping plates bound together in cloth or leather, and there was certainly cheaper armor in the past, but that's not what's shown in the pic. The pic is showing articulating plate armor, which does not and has never articulated so high up on the breastplate, nor has it ever had "styled" articulation points like that, which serve no purpose, and actually hinders the purpose and functionality of the armor and articulation points. If this is supposed to be some kind of articulating leather or lamellar armor, it's even more laughable.
[edit] It looks like this pic isn't from Nolan's new movie, but from a 2023 movie called "Knights of the Zodiac".