Which would everyone prefer? The hamburger look from The Long Halloween, or the more realistic scar-tissue look?
In my opinion, it should be a decent mixture of both, with the missing lips/eyelid and the hair burnt off with maybe a little of pale, frizzled fluff at the edges of the burn, sort of like the stuff that grows under a cast.
Chances are that this is the way they'll go, probably looking at medical journals and whatnot for some ideas of what it will look like. As for the suit, i definitely like what was done in The Long Halloween with the altered suit. You have to have the altered suit, it's part of his most recognizable persona. But they have to make it believable. Something he could have done himself. It would be easy to explain too, "they" (whover he would have the ties to in the film) could just drop off a couple of suits when he gets checked into the hospital for when he's released, (surely there would be plenty of media present for something like that), one would be black with light pinstripes, the other Grey with dark pinstripes or no stripes at all. When he escapes, he could just grab the two. They could even show a decent close-up shot of him grabbing the two off the hospital hangers from the closet, just a dark and fast extreme close-up that could be very cool if done correctly. There's so many ways the character could be done correctly, which is why the Batman Forever crap is so horrible. Even with my extremely limited knowledge of film, i can think of a better treatment of the character than Schumacher, which is why he's such a *****ebag.