hours long directors cut, ever existed.   The only "directors cut" of the film was the one shown theatrically; Lynch  never had a hand in any other version of Dune. Lynchs original intention was  for Dune to have been about 3+ hours long. To that end, about 5 hours was  shot. This is also confirmed by author Frank Herbert (qv) wrote in the  introduction to the book "Eye".  It would be impossible for a 6