Paramount Global Brings ‘NCIS: Origins’ To Cannes; Mark & Sean Harmon & Prequel Showrunners On Getting Grittier & Going Back To The Source
deadline.comParamount Global Content Distribution has landed in Cannes with a new NCIS for international buyers, NCIS: Origins. Ahead of the event, Deadline spoke to the team behind it: Mark Harmon, the original Leroy Jethro Gibbs and an exec producer on the new show, along with his son and fellow EP Sean Harmon, and co-showrunner/EPs David J.
North and Gina Lucita Monreal. NCIS as a franchise has launched shows set in Los Angeles, New Orleans, Hawaii and Sydney, Australia, and clocked up more than 1,000 episodes of network drama.
Its latest variant, NCIS: Origins, provides something different and darker as the show goes back to the source. “The character of Gibbs has resonated with global audiences because he is a role model and at the same time someone you can relate to,” says Sean Harmon. “The world is used to seeing Gibbs as ‘the boss’, but in NCIS: Origins we are dealing with a much less tempered version of him.
Fans can look forward to a more intimate look into what makes Gibbs tick, as well as meeting some of the characters who influenced him along the way.” The prequel winds the clock back to 1991.
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