“We knew that Mike Franks was from Texas, we knew that he was a Marine and he mentioned a brother in one line, so we had those pieces,” co-showrunner Gina Lucita Monreal tells Parade. “The rest we created around those pieces that we already had.”
The team’s investigation into the death of a Marine general’s son sends Franks on his own journey into the past, taking us back to Texas and his decision to join the Marine Corps, rather than get inducted into the Army during the Vietnam War era.
“We wanted to stick to canon, and we wanted to stay close to the character of who we felt that Franks was and there are pieces of the Vietnam story that we haven't seen yet. So hopefully all of those questions will be answered once we delve into that,” Monreal continues.
Austin Stowell, Kyle SchmidPhoto: Erik Voake/CBS
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The decision to set Mike Franks’ backstory into a possible NIS suicide case was an idea that was much talked about in the writers’ room. There were many iterations of what the story was going to be before the decision was finalized. Namely, would there be parallels to Franks, or would it be something else?
Kyle SchmidPhoto: Robert Voets/CBS
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In addition to staying true to NCIS canon and also the year (1991) in which NCIS: Origins is set, the show makes it a point to stick to the appropriate science and the soundtrack of the era. So, when they did a flashback to Franks’ home life in Texas in the ‘60s, they also made it a point to keep the music appropriate. To that point, they were lucky enough to get clearance to use Bob Dylan’s “It’s Alright, Ma," very timely given the release of the biopic A Complete Unknown
NCIS: Origins airs tonight at 10 p.m. ET/PT on CBS. Episodes stream the next day on Paramount+.
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