NCIS Spinoff’s Cast Update Has Fans Hyped Up For New Storylines

Summary:

• Launched back in 2003 and never stopped since, CBS’ police procedural drama show NCIS keeps expanding its universe with yet another spinoff series that will focus on one of the original show’s main characters.
• The upcoming prequel’s ensemble is getting bigger as the show has recently added two more actors to its cast.
• With the recent casting news being confirmed, fans are excited to see some new intriguing plot twists that the renewed cast will bring to the screen.

CBS’ police procedural thriller show NCIS has been having quite a good time on TV with the recent season 21 being aired and multiple spinoff series making their way to the show universe’s expansion.

Back in January NCIS’ prequel show called NCIS: Origins was officially greenlit for airing sometime in 2025; this time the show will be centring on Leroy Jethro Gibbs’s story that will take viewers back to 1991 when the character was about to kick his NCIS agent’s career off.

With the previous news that Austin Stowell was cast to portray young Gibbs in the upcoming prequel, some other major updates about the show’s ensemble didn’t take too long to arrive either.

According to Deadline’s reports, NCIS: Origins has officially added Patrick Fischler and Julian Black Antelope. The former has recently starred in Jeffrey Wright-led Oscar-winning black comedy drama American Fiction while the latter’s recent notable appearance was in Hulu ’s original film Prey.

As the reports say, Fischler landed the role of Cliff Walker, an NCIS Special Agent in Charge who, in an attempt to preserve his little own agency from a big player’s influence, “puts his career on the line to earn NIS Pendleton the respect it deserves”.

In his turn, Black Antelope is set to portray Chief Medical Examiner Kai Blackrock whose “unflappable” temperament hides the fact that his “complicated ties to NIS force him to face his own vulnerabilities”.

Amidst the breaking news about the cast additions in the upcoming spinoff, NCIS’ fans expect to see some tense dynamics that the original show hasn’t featured before.

Some are already anticipating Gibbs and Walker’s competitive relationships while Black Antelope’s character is intriguing enough when it comes to his personal background that the reports highlight mentioning his “vulnerabilities”.

Source: Deadline