John Milton (Scream)

John Milton was a devious and greedy director who made his first and only appearance in Scream 3. He is almost certainly the father of Roman Bridger, another sadistic director who took on the mantle of Ghostface and blames the rape of Maureen Prescott on his father. As such, Milton is one of the two characters who is solely responsible for the events of all four Scream films.

He was portrayed by Lance Henriksen.

Background
Milton became a famous Hollywood producer focused on the horror genre of cinema. Making fictional fictional films such as Amazombies, Space Psycho, Creatures of The San Andreas Fault, he had the star of the films, Maureen Prescott, have blackmail sex with him so she continuously gets the job. One occasion turned into the birth of Roman Bridger who was put up for adoption. Roman's negligence from his mother and father caused him to become the sociopathic serial killer we know today.

However, years later, Milton began creating the Stab series based on the original Woodsburo murders caused by Billy Loomis and Stu Macher. The making of these films indirectly caused the events of Scream 2 to 4. The perverted, old director then became Roman's filmmaking mentor, unaware that his movie creating apprentice is his bastard son.

Trivia

 * Despite the fact that he is not a Ghostface killer, nor even a murderer, he is considered by fans as one of the most hated antagonists on the series due to gang raping Maureen Prescott. It is for his action that the events of the Scream series were truly put in motion.