The project is already in active series development with Searchlight TV already looking for potential writers that could pen the TV adaptation.
The latter earned five Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and Best Director for Aronofsky, with Natalie Portman winning her first Oscar for Best Actress.
Published on June 23, Boss of The Beach centers around the tumultuous career of Peter Stein, the chief lifeguard who has run the New York City lifeguard cops for the last 40 years.
Following a competitive bidding war against nine other studios, Deadline brings word that Oscar-nominated filmmaker Darren Aronofsky and Searchlight Television have successfully acquired the television rights to a recent New York Magazine article titled Boss of The Beach, which was written by David Gauvey Herbert.