Hey Guys
Yes, while storyboarding is common in action and scifi films, it's usually only budgeted and/or needed for action scenes. For Alien Res, Jean Paul Jeunet intensely wanted to direct the film, so he did storyboards for the entire film, trying to get the gig, IIRC. It's been awhile since I watched the specials/commentary on that DVD.
That alone was the main inspiration for me to relaunch Sarah Zero in basically "living storyboard" format. I love making spread after spread of just one huge shot after another, each a frozen moment in time!