Call it Charlie Ergen’s version of “Star Wars.”

Ergen, the satellite kingpin behind Dish Network, is planning to take on Verizon and AT&T by creating a wireless video and data bundle, sources said.

Ergen, who is back in the saddle as Dish’s CEO after a period as chairman, has spent the past six weeks aggressively building his $20-a-month Sling TV and meeting with programmers, sources told The Post.

Sling is expected to be paired with a cloud-based data service — using some of the $13 billion in wireless spectrum Dish won in a recent FCC auction.

Rumors of Ergen’s big move picked up steam on Thursday when it emerged that Dish is looking to hire a chief marketing officer for what is billed as “something big,” according to Yahoo! Finance, which unearthed a confidential recruitment document.

“This is an incredibly exciting time in our history. We have reinvented ourselves in the past and we are preparing to do it again,” read the document.

Dish reps told The Post: “We’re always looking for great talent to grow and evolve our business.”

Ergen talked about pivoting his business on a call with Wall Street analysts earlier this month when he discussed first-quarter results.

In the quarter, Dish revealed that it lost 134,000 customers in the period following contract scuffles with Fox News and a price increase.

Over the last year, Dish has lost roughly 300,000 customers. So a makeover of Dish, it seems, can’t come fast enough.

“Everything has to be in the cloud,” Ergen told the analysts, “and you [have] got to be connected to that brain and so it’s not just wireless spectrum and video and it’s going to be all kinds of other peripheral things that are going to come together.”

“The linear pay TV business probably peaked a couple of years ago,” Ergen said, acknowledging a slight decline. “The world is changing — we’re missing the younger generation in pay TV.”

The Street has been waiting to figure out what Ergen wants to do with the wireless spectrum he’s been acquiring over the past few years.

Craig Moffett of independent research boutique MoffettNathanson told clients in a note on May 11 that “Dish’s video business is dying a slow death.”

Moffett is eager for Ergen, a well-known card shark, to show his hand.

“Will wireless serve to strengthen the bundle?” Moffett wrote in the note. “Will it be a value-add for existing subscribers? Or will it be a whole new business, à la [Netflix CEO] Reed Hastings’ pivot from mail order delivery to streaming?”

Ergen’s race to create a new offering is becoming more urgent by the day as the technology, media and telecom industry consolidation ramps up.

On Wednesday, Verizon said it would acquire AOL in an eye popping $4.4 billion transaction aimed at both helping Verizon monetize video traffic via advertising and obtaining more video to boost bandwidth charges.