What is Mark Harmon doing next after NCIS?
Almost three after leaving NCIS, news broke that Harmon — who played NCIS Supervisory Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs from Season 1 to Season 19 — would be returning to acting in the upcoming Freaky Friday sequel, Freaky Friday 2, which is set to premiere in 2025.
Harmon starred in the original movie in 2003 as Ryan, the fiance of Jamie Lee Curtis’ Tess Coleman. Harmon’s return to Freaky Friday came after The Hollywood Reporter reported in February 2023 that the NCIS alum had signed with The Gersh Agency, a talent agency that has also represented actors like Brendan Fraser, Allison Janney, Patricia Arquette, Adam Driver and Mandy Moore.
Along with Freaky Friday 2, Harmon will also be an executive producer on NCIS: Origins, NCIS‘ upcoming sequel set to follow a younger version of Harmon’s character, Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs, as he starts at the Pendleton branch of the Naval Investigative Service. Though Harmon won’t appear on-screen in the prequel, he will narrate and executive produce the series. His son, Sean Harmon, is also an executive producer. The series is set to premiere in the fall of 2024, with actor Austin Stowell playing young Gibbs.
Harmon’s first non-acting project since leaving NCIS was a book titled Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor, which he co-wrote with NCIS technical advisor Leon Carroll Jr.
The book, which was released on November 14, 2023, and is inspired by Harmon and Carroll Jr.’s experiences on NCIS, is a historical account of the Japanese and American intelligence agents in World War II. “These are the real stories from those who were there,” Harmon told People. “It’s real and it’s our history.” The book’s publisher also described it as a nonfiction work that highlights on “the incredible high stakes game of naval intelligence.”
