When illness and havoc spread across England, Queen Elizabeth I must confront the Devil and save her kingdom.

I have a single bit of feedback. If I was looking for a film to produce, you have given we four words to assess, ?must confront the devil?.

I have to now make an entire film in my mind because you haven't given me anything.

QE1 must enter hell and endure a series of moral tortures based on her own actions as queen to defeat the devil and save England from a pandemic.

My version is crap. But you have an idea of the shape of the movie. Set in hell, a few demons perhaps ... that sort of thing.

I think Richiev's version still doesn't address the problem of why the?Queen of England must do anything.
An inciting incident should be tailor-made for the protagonist. It is an event which?forces the character - and only the protagonist(s) to act. They must leave their 'Normal World', venture into the adventure which awaits.

The problem at present is that the Queen has people do things for her, especially anything dangerous. Even if she did decide to go face the Devil on her own, it's quite likely that her guards wouldn't allow her. If the inciting incident is a general 'plague sweeping across country', unless every single person who works for her has succumbed to the disease, there's no reason for her to do this herself.

A way to fix this is to make the inciting incident something along the lines of the Devil appearing before her and telling her specifically that she must defeat him in order to save her country. Basically, the Devil takes her country hostage and she's the?only one who can free it.
Or, you could change the protagonist to a different person - perhaps a female warrior who works for the Queen who is tasked with facing the danger.

?When a demonic plague devastates?England, a desperate Queen Elizabeth, in order to save her country, must travel to the crossroads and defeat the Devil in a rocking Harpsichord contest: If she wins, England is saved, if she loses, it's her very soul.?

Possible title: The Devil Went Down to Brighton

How did you know about the Harpsichord contest? ?

But seriously your points and? Dkpouh's are well taken about the confrontation.

Thanks for your advise. I'm off to work on it some more.