As a fan of both Ridley Scott and the film Alien, (the original from 1979) I enjoyed the documentary about the origins of the movie and it’s screenwriter Dan O’Bannon (along with Ronald Shusett.) This quote from his widow points to the possibility of his ideas looping back from the Future:

My husband was out of time in a way, out of specific time…. When he died, I had a strange feeling that he'd gone back to the future from whence he come… Don’t ask me why he had this connection to the past and the future, but he sure did. He came from a place that had no telephone or television and went to the stars. Went to the stars. It's inexplicable