How involved will/should Joss Whedon be in the Guardians movie?

Script doctor/executive producer.

 

Bring in his best bro Drew Goddard to direct it

But I would imagine all Rocky/Groot stuff will come straight from Joss

 

If Guardians wasn't being released less than a year before A2, I'd imagine his involvement would be greater, but as it stands, I imagine he'll just perform those duties.

 

Absolutely. I'm also going to go out on a limb and say he will have a pretty big say in casting too. Especially since Avengers 2 is shaping up to be a superhero bonanza (check out my sig for proof, lol). So he's going to want quality actors, or at least "his kind" of actors.

 

I think he would keep an eye on things, make sure Gamora is a character and not just a fan service model. I'm quite excited for him to keep an eye on this as I think he would be great at grounding this.

 

as much as he needs to be story-wise to make sure everything gels. Once they get a director (assuming it isnt Goddard or a Whedon protege) he needs to let them do their hing without interference. It's not fair to directors to have a Poltergeist like situation.

 

It isn't fair and Spielberg admitted he was too involved in the production to be just a producer. And I give an example or two of mine here as well. Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Empire Strikes Back. Other than breaking the story and helping in design once the cameras started rolling Lucas had a virtual hands off approach and would have with Return of the Jedi had Marchand not been a bit out of his element.

 

That's precisely what Marvel is known for doing.

 

There's one thing all of those directors had in common: they were struggling to get their own stuff funded

Favs was coming off a bomb in Zathura
Branagh had never made a commercially successful film and Sleuth had just cost its studio a ton of money
Johnston was stuck in director's jail after Hidalgo, and was only hired for Wolfman because they had days to find a replacement
Leterrier was coming off the Transporter 2 bomb/failure
and Whedon hadn't returned to film following the Serenity flop, and was in the middle of watching Dollhouse crash and burn

The majority of them (all of them?) were respected in Hollywood circles but studios weren't actively funding their projects. And they all got major career bumps from their Marvel flicks

Shane Black, the Russos, and Alan Taylor continue that trend

 

I would assume just some creative direction..so he can maybe set up a cross over between the guardians and the avengers in A2 or possibly A3

 

Consultant.

 

Joss Whedon should be just the right amount of involved.

 

He'll definitely have a big effect on how the film ends.

 

Is he really involved with this movie? I just imagine him spending his time on Avengers 2 and the Shield TV show.

 

He's been hired to oversee Phase II in it's entirety. I'm sure they've given him somewhere at least 50 million reasons to pay attention to all things Phase 2.