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Netflix's CEO says movie theaters are old news. Director Rian Johnson says his next movie belongs there anyway.

The "Knives Out" director Rian Johnson disagrees with Ted Sarandos, who called movie theaters "outdated." He wants his next movie in theaters.

Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos recently cemented his feelings about the state of the movie theater business, calling it an "outdated concept" while speaking at the Time100 Summit. While speaking with Rian Johnson during the promotion of the second season of his Peacock series, "Poker Face," Business Insider asked the writer-director, who's behind Netflix's popular "Knives Out" movie franchise, whether he agreed with Sarandos' comments. "Folks grew up thinking, 'I want to make movies on a gigantic screen and have strangers watch them and play in the theater for two months and people cry and sold-out shows.'

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