The first images from Martin Scorsese’s forthcoming film, “The Irishman,” are out to whet the appetite of audiences for the Netflix movie.

On Monday, the New York Film Festival announced that “The Irishman,” which stars Robert De Niro as Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran and Al Pacino as Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa, would open the festival with its world premiere on Sept. 27.

The movie marks the first time Pacino, 79, has worked with Scorsese, 76, despite their shared prominence in the mob movie canon.

After the New York Film Festival premiere, “The Irishman” will be released in select theaters and come to Netflix later this year.

The film is based on the 2003 Charles Brandt book “I Heard You Paint Houses,” in which Sheeran, a Camden native, claims to have killed Hoffa, who disappeared from the parking lot of a restaurant in Bloomfield, Michigan in 1975 and was declared legally dead in 1982. (“Paint houses” is a term used to convey the bloody notion of killing people.)

In a photo Netflix released from the film, Newark native Joe Pesci, 76, can be seen sitting at a bar with De Niro, 75. Pesci plays Russell Bufalino, a Pennsylvania Mafia boss. In the book, Sheeran claimed that Bufalino ordered him to kill Hoffa, who was the former president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

But the movie has other New Jersey connections besides Sheeran and Pesci, who starred alongside De Niro in Scorsese’s “Goodfellas” and “Casino.”

For one, “The Irishman” was partially filmed in Paterson, like the forthcoming “Sopranos” prequel film “The Many Saints of Newark” and the Steven Spielberg remake of “West Side Story," both due out in 2020.

Plus, another of the film’s stars, Bobby Cannavale, 49, hails from Union City. Cannavale plays Felix “Skinny Razor” DiTullio, a Philadelphia mob captain and mentor who owned the Friendly Lounge.

Ray Romano, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro in "The Irishman."Niko Tavernise | Netflix

“It’s an incredible honor that 'The Irishman’ has been selected as the opening night of the New York Film Festival," Scorsese said in a statement. "I greatly admire the bold and visionary selections that the festival presents to audiences year after year. The festival is critical to bringing awareness to cinema from around the world. I am grateful to have the opportunity to premiere my new picture in New York alongside my wonderful cast and crew.”

“The Irishman” uses visual effects to age its stars down a few decades. The film employs other, less technologically advanced tricks, too. In 2017, De Niro was spotted on set in New York wearing platform shoes to appear much taller than Pacino. Sheeran, who died in 2003 and claimed to have killed 25 people in mob hits, was 6 foot, 4 inches tall.

In another photo provided by Netflix, De Niro and Pacino can be seen leaving a crush of reporters with Ray Romano, 61. Romano plays Bill Bufalino, an attorney and cousin to Russell Bufalino who represented the Teamsters and worked with Hoffa before his disappearance.

“'The Irishman’ is so many things: rich, funny, troubling, entertaining and, like all great movies, absolutely singular," Kent Jones, director of the New York Film Festival, said in a statement. "It’s the work of masters, made with a command of the art of cinema that I’ve seen very rarely in my lifetime, and it plays out at a level of subtlety and human intimacy that truly stunned me. All I can say is that the minute it was over my immediate reaction was that I wanted to watch it all over again.”

Other cast members in the film include Harvey Keitel, who plays Philadelphia mob boss Angelo Bruno; Anna Paquin, who plays Sheeran’s daughter, Peggy Sheeran; Jesse Plemons, who plays Hoffa friend and adopted son Charles “Chuckie” O’Brien; Kathrine Narducci, who played Charmaine Bucco on “The Sopranos,” as Carrie Bufalino; and comedian Jim Norton as Don Rickles.

Sebastian Maniscalco (“Green Book”), who is hosting the MTV Video Music Awards at the Prudential Center in Newark on August 26, plays Joseph “Crazy Joe” Gallo. Gallo, a gangster from Brooklyn, inspired the 1976 Bob Dylan song “Joey." Sheeran also took credit for killing Gallo in 1972.

The world premiere of “The Irishman” will be at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall on Sept. 27 on the opening night of the New York Film Festival. Tickets for the general public go on sale Sept. 8.

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