true a missed oportunity, maybe they werent fans of that film. Then again russel should of suggested it himself

He really should have. I wonder if he did? It's possible. If he ever did a DVD commentary track for Miracle, maybe he mentioned it.

By the way, (this has nothing to do with Miracle, but it's related to The Thing), I found a reference to a collaboration Kurt Russell did with John Carpenter in 1979, a TV movie about Elvis. I bet most of us here already knew about this, but if I knew about it I had forgotten it. Anyway, this looks pretty interesting. Sadly, Buck Flower was apparently not in this. I guess Carpenter hadn't discovered him yet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_(1979_film)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079103/