NCIS Origins: Find out who will play young Gibbs in the new series of the franchise

The prequel to NCIS: Special Investigations focused on the young Gibbs has just found a lead actor.

While we learned a few days ago that Michael Weatherly and Cote de Pablo were going to reprise their roles as Tony and Ziva in a spin-off in Europe for the Paramount+ platform, the American channel CBS will continue to work in parallel. Expand its successful franchise next school year with the release of NCIS: Origins, which will revisit Gibbs’ youth in the 1990s.

And it is actor Austin Stowell, who is relatively little known to the general public, that the producer chose to “pass” Mark Harmon in the skin of Leroy Jethro Gibbs, who will be about thirty years old in this series, which dates back to the origin of the character.

Who is Austin Stowell, Gibbs’ new translator?

Seen around a decade ago in 90210, NCIS: Los Angeles (for one episode) and The Secret Life of an Ordinary Teenager in the recurring role of Jesse, Austin Stowell made his film debut in The Incredible Story of Winter the Dolphin. and its sequels), The Swallow, Bridge of Spies, Nightmare Island or the romantic comedy Best Enemies, in which he played one of the two main roles alongside Lucy Hale.

On the series side, Austin Stowell, who will make his first major TV role thanks to NCIS: Origins, recently starred in Catch-22, Breathe with Melissa Barrera and A Friend of The Family, a thriller available on OCS in France. where he plays the role of FBI agent Pete Wells.

Note that a younger version of Gibbs has already appeared in a few episodes of NCIS… as Sean Harmon, Mark Harmon’s son, who therefore won’t be playing the role in the prequel, but will still appear in it as an enforcer. Producer and co-showrunner (the idea for this new series comes from him).

What will be the plot of NCIS Origins?

Produced by Mark Harmon, Sean Harmon, David J. North and Gina Lucita Montreal, NCIS: Origins is set in 1991, years before the start of the parent series, and follows Leroy Jethro Gibbs’ first steps as a special agent. Naval Investigative Service (NIS) – future NCIS – based at Camp Pendleton, California.

The beginning of his career will be interesting for Gibbs, who will have to try to find a place in the motley team led by Mike Franks (NCIS legend played by Muse Watson in NCIS: Special Investigations).

Thus, this new series will be an opportunity to find a younger version of Franks, but also to see again the agent Vera Strickland, who appeared in the 11th season of the parent series in the guise of the Roma Mafia. Two characters, whose performers have not yet been named.

Despite the cancellations of NCIS: New Orleans and NCIS: Los Angeles, the NCIS franchise continues to do well, with two new series in the works soon to join NCIS and NCIS: Hawaii, which has seasons 21 and 3 respectively. will be broadcast on CBS. .

But also the latest, NCIS: Sydney, which is currently offered in France on Paramount+ at the rate of one new release per week.