CBS is currently plotting the prequel series NCIS: Origins, and they found a perfect guy to lead it. Austin Stowell will portray the young Leroy Jethro Gibbs, taking over from Mark Harmon who played this character for two decades in the mothership series.
NCIS: Origins will take us back to 1991, and it will see “Gibbs [start] his career as a newly minted special agent at the fledgling NIS Camp Pendleton office where he forges his place on a gritty, ragtag team led by NCIS legend Mike Franks,” according to CBS’s official logline.
David J. North and Gina Lucita Monreal serve as co-showrunners of this series, and they co-wrote the pilot. They’re also coming on board as executive producers alongside Mark Harmon and his son Sean Harmon. Mark Harmon will also serve as the show’s narrator.
Austin Stowell appeared in such acclaimed films as Bridge of Spies, Whiplash, and Battle of the Sexes, and his track record on TV is also pretty impressive. After making his acting debut in The Secret Life of the American Teenager, he went on to appear in Public Morals, Catch-22, and A Friend of the Family. He’ll next be seen in the Starz series Three Women alongside Shailene Woodley, DeWanda Wise, and Betty Gilpin.
