“Operation Taco Gary’s” Actor Simon Rex Made A Special Appearance At SmorgasburgLA

CHROMA, in partnership with Smorgasburg LA and Tacos 1986, hosted a Sunday Funday activation on Sunday, February 22, 2026, to promote the new comedy Operation Taco Gary’s, a ROTTEN SCIENCE production and a film by Mikey K, featuring Simon Rex (Blink Twice, Red Rocket, and the Scary Movie franchise).

Smorgasburg LA is Los Angeles’ weekly open-air market at ROW DTLA, known for its large mix of food, shopping vendors, pop-ups, and cultural programming every Sunday. It launched in 2016 and has grown into one of the city’s biggest recurring food-and-shopping destinations.

Tacos 1986 is a Los Angeles-founded, Tijuana-style taco restaurant (est. 2018) known for hand-made corn tortillas, flame-grilled meats, and fresh toppings, with a mission centered on bringing Tijuana street-style tacos to LA.

Operation Taco Gary’s is an absurd sci-fi comedy: A taco joint. An alien invasion. One very wrong road trip. When two brothers stumble onto a cosmic conspiracy hiding inside Taco Gary’s, they’re forced to save Earth.

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT (by Mikey K)

As the world kept getting stranger and stranger, I found myself clinging to the idea that I had a basicunderstanding of how things worked. But after surviving these last several chaotic years (when truth andfiction seemed locked in a lovers’ quarrel), I finally surrendered to the fact that I don’t understand jackshit. Life is chaotic, absurd, and often makes no sense at all. And that’s totally okay.

Operation Taco Gary’s is that experience in a nutshell, and it’s the journey Luke goes on in the film. Lukespends most of the story clinging to his version of reality, trying to make sense of a world that refuses tocooperate. By the end, broken and overwhelmed by the absurdity of it all, he reaches the most freeing conclusion a person can arrive at and says, “I don’t get it. And that’s okay.”

So that’s the meat of the film’s taco. And that meat is wrapped tightly in a nonstop comedy tortilla fromstart to finish. Because ultimately, Operation Taco Gary’s is our attempt to make the funniest movie we possibly could, one that feels reckless and unapologetic, like our favorite comedies of the ’90s and early 2000s.

We had an incredible time making this film, often with no clear idea whether what we were doing wouldwork. We hope audiences enjoy watching Operation Taco Gary’s as much as we enjoyed surviving the process of making it.

Operation Gary’s Taco will be available in theaters on February 27th. The film stars Simon Rex, Dustin Milligan, Brenda Song, Tony Cavalero, Arturo Castro, and Doug Jones, with Jason Biggs.

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